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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS
BRITISH MEDALS
Mary Tudor (1553-1554), The State of England, cast Bronze Medal, 1554, by Jacopo da Trezzo, bust of
Mary to left, wearing an elaborate gown, beaded border, legend around, signed below truncation, IAC
TREZ, rev Peace seated on a throne with supplicant figures beset by hailstorms to left, temple to right,
heavenly rays above and water below, CECIS VISVS TIMIDIS QVIES, 67.3mm (MI 72/20; Attwood 80;
Arm I, 241/3; Scher, Currency of Fame, 54). A good quality contemporary or near contemporary cast, good
very fine. £350-500
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Elizabeth I, Naval Reward, 1588, a restitutional uniface cast Silver Badge, c.1800, bust right with ruff
collar, coronet and wearing badge on chain, ELIZABETHA DG ANG FRA ET HIB REGINA, openwork
border attached around, decorated with roses and fleurs-de-lis, 67mm x 48mm (cf MI 148/119). Most
decorative, good very fine. £300-400
Elizabeth I, The Battle of Turnhout, Prince Maurice’s Victory over the Spanish, Dutch Silver Medal,
1597, by G van Bijlaer, the Belgic Lion with sword and arrows, rev legend in eleven lines, ORDINVM
AVSPICIIS PRINCIPIS MAVRITII ..., 52mm (MI 166/152; Eimer 68; vL I, 484). Good very fine, signs of
tooling, toned. £800-1200
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Charles I, “So-Called” Pattern Shilling, 1628, Tower mint, by N Briot, struck in bronze, crowned shield
within the collar of the Order of the Thistle, all within the Garter itself, CAROLUS D G ANG SCO FRAN
ET HIB REX, rev REGIT UNUS UTROQUE, sceptre and trident in saltire, date 1628 in exergue, 29mm,
2.13mm thick (MI 250/27; Eimer 112; BMC [Jones], French Medals 132-133; N 2676 [R], questioning
denomination; SCBI Brooker 1260). Obverse very fine, the reverse rubbed in centre, very rare, none of the
references recording an example in this metal. £120-150
Charles I (1625-1649) and Henrietta Maria, The Final Meeting at Kineton, Gloucestershire, Pewter
Medal, 1643, by Thomas Rawlins, the King and Queen enthroned beneath sun and moon, a dragon
slain beneath their feet, CERTIVS PYTHONEM INVICTI, rev legend and date in twelve lines, XIILIVL /
CAROL ET MARIE ..., signed R below, 36.5mm (MI 306/130; pl XXVI, 15). Seemingly cast from a struck
example, excessively rare. £300-400
The meeting took place on 13 July, the same day as the decisive Royalist victory by Lord Wilmot over Sir William Waller at the
Battle of Roundway Down, near Devizes, Wiltshire. MI lists just two specimens, one of which was destroyed in a fire in 1879. A
cast silver example, previously in the collection of Helen Farquhar, Glendining’s, 25 April 1955, lot 218 (part), was again offered
for sale by Glendining’s [English Collector], 16 March 1989, lot 63a (£820), and is now ina private collection.
Charles I (1625-1649) and Henrietta Maria, oval cast Silver-gilt Badge, by Thomas Rawlins, crowned
bust of Charles right, wearing lace collar, ermine and George of the Garter, CAROLVS.D.G.MAG.
BRITAN . FRAN .ET. HIB. REX. FI.D., rev bust of Henrietta Maria left, HENRIETTA .MARIA.D.G.MAG
; BRITAN - FRAN . ET. HIB. REG ., thin rope border, 33mm x 40mm (E 166b; MI 355/217). Contemporary,
a high quality cast apparently cast in one piece, missing the top suspension loop, pierced with loop attached, the
gilding thick and original, extremely fine. £1200-1500
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Charles I, Release of Giles Strangways, large Silver Medal, 1648, by J Roettier, AGIDIVS. STRANGWAYS.
DE. MELBVRY. IN. COM. DORCESTER. ARMIGER., bust right, rev DECVSQOVE. ADVERSA. DEDERVNT,., the
White Tower, in exergue INCARCERATVS SEPT 1645 LIBERATVS APR 1648, 60mm (E 153; MI 333/177).
A little die rust, attractively toned extremely fine. £800-1000
Albert Joachim (1560-1654), Ambassador from the States General of the United Provinces, aged 86,
cast Pewter Medal, 1646, by Abraham Simon, robed and bearded bust left, plain collar, hair short,
rev legend in seven lines, 1646 ALB IOACHIMI EQ FA3DERAT BELG POST VARIAS IN EVROP LEGAT
IAM ORDINAR IN BRIT AN 22 AT 86, 36mm (MI 324/162; Eimer 151). Of considerable age, perhaps
contemporary, very fine. 20-300
with dealer’s ticket from 1978
James I and Charles, Prince of Wales, Silver Counter, in the style of Simon de Passe, in imitation of
engraving, bust of each three-quarters right, Charles with beard, AND THY RIGHTEOVSNESS VNTO
THE KINGS SONN, 27mm; Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Silver Counters (2), busts three-quarters
right and three-quarters left, 27mm, and conjoined busts right, rev three crowns on sword and sceptre,
27.5mm (MI 376/272; 377/275; 378/278), good very fine; further Silver Counters (3), from the series
of Kings and Queens, with standing monarch, Harold, Edward V, and Richard HI, each 27mm (MI
379/281), these fine. (6) £150-200
Charles I, Copper Memorial Medals (2), by J Roettier, struck after the Restoration, bust right wearing
armour, hair long and love-lock falling over left shoulder, rev hand from heaven holds crown over
pastoral landscape, 51mm (MI 346/200). Both very fine. (2) £150-200
Traditionally described as by John Roettier, the medal is now believed to have been issued c.1695 by James and Norbert Roettier
(cf A Griffiths, “Advertisements for Medals in the London Gazette”, The Medal, No. XV, pp.4-6)
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Oliver Cromwell, Lord General, Oval Medal, by Thomas Simon, 1650, struck on a round copper flan,
armoured bust three-quarters right, with plain lace collar, OLICROMWEL MILIT PARL DVX GEN, 36mm
(MI 388/7; Eimer 180). Extremely fine, but major die flaw above oval border. £200-250
These medals were struck in Holland sometime after 1720
Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp (1598-1653), Death at the Battle of Scheveningen, Silver Medal,
1653, by Deric van Rijswijck, bust of Tromp three-quarters right in oval frame, wearing Order of Saint-
Michel, rev view of naval action with ship sinking in the right foreground, 55.5mm (MI 404/36;
vL I 364; MH 544). Very fine, an unusual solid cast, chased and suspension loop broken from top. £200-250
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Oliver Cromwell, Battle of Dunbar, Silver Medal, 1650, by Thomas Simon, bust of Oliver Cromwell
to left, armoured and draped, rev the Speaker seated facing, in the assembled chamber of Parliament,
28mm x 35mm, 18" century striking (MI 391-92/ 13-14; Eimer 181a3). Very fine and scarce. £700-900
Oliver Cromwell, The Battle of Dunbar, small uniface oval Silver Medal, 1650, by Thomas Simon, bust
left, THE LORD OF HOSTS, 24.5mm x 20.5mm, 18'" century striking (MI 391/13; Eimer 181b). Nearly
extremely fine, signs of die damage above head, toned. £100-150
Elizabeth Cleypole [Claypole] (1629-1658), second daughter of Oliver Cromwell, uniface Tin / White
Metal Memorial Medal, 1658, by Thomas Simon, bust right, wearing single strand of pearls, hair tied
back, 35mm, 18" / 19" century (?) (MI 430/74). A sharp impression but of uncertain date, surface spotting,
good very fine. £100-150
Cromwell and Masaniello, Copper Medal [1658], by Ferdinand de St Urbain, bust of Cromwell left,
rev bust of Maseniello left, 45mm (MI 432/79; Eimer 199). Extremely fine, scarce. £200-250
Tommaso Aniello, or Masaniello (died 1647), Neapolitan fisherman who, in 1647, led i
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Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector of England 1653-1658), Death 1658, Silver Medal, by Thomas Simon,
laureate and armoured bust left, rev shepherd with flock by tree, 21mm x 19mm, a later cast of a struck
medal (MI 433/82; Eimer 202). Very fine. £80-120
Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector of England 1653-1658), Death 1658, Silver Medal, a late 18** century
restitution of Thomas Simon’s medal by Stuart, laureate and armoured bust left, rev shepherd with
flock by tree, 21mm x 19mm (cf MI 433/82; Eimer 202). Beautifully worked, extremely fine. £80-120
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Charles H, The Embarkation at Scheveningen, a Silver Cliché of the obverse of the Medal, 1660, by
Peter van Abeele, bust almost full-face, his hair long and falling over armour, wearing the Garter
George from a heavy chain, CAROLVS II DG MAGN& BRIT ..., 70.5mm, in a late 18 century brass frame
(MI 455/44; vL IL, 462; Eimer 210; MH 42). Deeply toned, very fine. £250-350
Van Abeele made his medals in two separate halves and joined them with a rim. A similar cliché of an obverse was sold by
Spink, 26 March 2008, lot 40.
Charles IH, Restoration 1660, “BRITANNIE”, Copper Medal, by John Roettier, draped and armoured
bust right, with short hair, signed JR below, AVGVSTISS CAROLO SECVNDO PP, rev Hercules, Minerva,
Prudence, Peace and Mercury stand around an altar, supporting a shield with an image of Britannia,
Plenty with a cornucopie reclines in the foreground, NVLLVM NVMEN ABEST, 62.5mm (MI 460/54;
Eimer 214; vL IIL, 464). Very fine with deep brown patina. £250-350
MI does not record any examples in copper, however as the dies are in the British Museum there is the possibility that it is an
early 19" century striking by the coin dealer Matthew Young.
Charles II, Marriage to Catherine of Braganza, Silver Medal, 1662, by G Bower, conjoined busts right,
CAROLVS. II. ET. CATHARINA. D.G. MAG. BRIT. FR. ET. HIB. REX. ET. REGINA, rev Jupiter seated in clouds,
with Venus and Cupid, MAIESTAS ET AMOR, 22mm (Eimer 226; MI 481/92). Good very fine. £150-200
3022 Charles II, Marriage to Catherine of Braganza, Silver-gilt Medal, 1662, by George Bower, laureate bust
of Charles right, dressed as a Roman Emperor, CAROLVS. Il. D: G. MAG. BRITA FRAN? EI Iba REX
rev bust of Catherine right, wearing Portuguese tiara, .CATHARINA. D. G. MAG. BRIT. FRAN. HIB. REG.,
edge SIC SINE FINE DVOS AMBIAT VNVS AMOR, 54mm (MI 482/93). Rare with edge inscription, about
£500-600
extremely fine.
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3023. Charles II, Marriage to Catherine of Braganza, Silver-gilt Medal, 1662, by John Roettier, busts of each
right to either side, he laureate and armoured, she with hair tied back and lovelock on shoulder, with
Roettier’s monogram below, CAROLVS. IL. D. G. MAG. BRIT. FRAN. ET. HIB. REX, rev bust of Catherine
right, CATHER. D. G. MAG. BRIT. FRAN. ET. HIB. REGINA., 34mm (MI 489/110). Extremely fine. £300-400
3024 Charles II, Marriage to Catherine of Braganza, Silver Medal, 1662, the “Golden Medal”, by J Roettier,
busts of each right to either side, he laureate and armoured, she with hair tied back and lovelock on
shoulder, CAROLVS. II.DEI. G. MAG. BRI. FRAN. ET. HIB. REX, rev her bust right, CATHARINA. D. G. MAG.
BRI. FRAN. ET. HIBER. REGINA, 43mm (Eimer 224; MI 489/111). Marks on reverses, very fine. £250-300
3025 Charles II, Marriage to Catherine of Braganza, Silver Medal, 1662, the “Golden Medal”, by John
Roettiers, busts of each right to either side, he laureate and armoured, she with hair tied back and
lovelock on shoulder, 43.5mm (MI 489/111; Eimer 224; vLIL, 471). Good very fine. £250-300
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Charles II, Queen Catherine as St Catherine, Silver Medal, 1662, unsigned, by J Roettier, bust of
Catherine of Braganza right, CATHARINA. D. G. MAG. BRI. FRAN. ET. HIBER. REGINA, rev St Catherine
standing facing, PIETATE INSIGNIS, 43mm, unidentified punch mark in obverse margin (MI 490/112).
Toned, extremely fine, rare. £600-800
Charles II, uniface Silver Counter, crowned bust left, gadrooned border, 24mm (MI 487/106; MI plates
XLVI, 18). Rare, about extremely fine. £200-250
Charles II, Catherine of Braganza, uniface Silver Counter, crowned bust left, gadrooned border, 24mm
(MI 488/107; MI plates XLVI, 19). Rare, about extremely fine. £200-250
Charles H, uniface Silver Counter, crowned rose, gadrooned border, 24mm (MI 488/108; MI plates
XLVI, 20). Rare, about extremely fine. £120-150
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Charles II and Catherine of Braganza, British Colonisation, 1670, Silver Medal, by John Roettier,
conjoined busts right, CAROLVS. ET. CATHARINA. REX. ET. REGINA, rev the globe, centred on Africa
and showing the Eastern seaboard of North America, + DIFFVSVS. IN. ORBE. BRITANNVS. 1670, 41mm
(Betts 44; Eimer 245; MI 546/203). Very fine/extremely fine. £700-900
Thomas Wriothesley, 4° Earl of Southampton (1607-1667), Lord High Treasurer, 1660-1667, Silver
Electrotype Copy of the medal by Abraham and Thomas Simon, 1664, by Robert Ready, bust left
wearing cap and gown, his hair over his collar, rev THOMAS COMES SOVTHAMPTONZE SVMMTS or
41.5mm (cf MI 502/137; Eimer 227). Nearly extremely fine. £120-150
Robert Cooper Ready (1811-1901) joined the British Museum in 1859 to make copies of coins, medals and seals etc., and he
pioneered the use of the electrotype process. The edge of the medal carries his “RR” stamp.
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Frances Teresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1647-1702), uniface Copper Portrait Medal,
c.1667, by John Roettier, bust left, loosely draped, her hair drawn up and with plain diadem, 70mm
(MI 541/195; pl LV, 1; Nau 42; Spink Auction 8, 27 February 1980, lot 444). Good very fine, some rust
marks in field and die flaw by the bridge of her nose, slight edge knock at 2 o'clock, extremely rare. £400-600
The die for this medal, from which no specimens were struck in the 17" century, was one of a number of Roettier family dies
sold by a Mr Cox to the coin dealer and jeweller Matthew Young, of Ludgate Hill (London), in 1828. Young was to give all of the
dies to the British Museum in 1829 and only a very few specimens were struck. Frances Stuart was a notable beauty at the court
of Charles II and was married in March 1667. Roettier worked on medallic portraits of two further beauties, all unfinished, but
this was to be used by him, ina reduced size, as the model for Britannia on the medal for the Peace of Breda (MI 535/185-186).
Whilst the diarist John Evelyn was to write of “the fair Mrs. Stuart”, Samuel Pepys, 25 February 1667, wrote of the Breda medal
“where in little is Mrs. Stewart’s face, as well done as ever I saw anything in my whole life, I think; and a pretty thing it is that
he should choose her face to represent Britannia by”.
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Charles i Christ’s Hospital, Nautical School, uniface Silver Badge, 1673, Bluecoat boy with the figures
of Arithmetic, Astronomy and Mathematics, AVSPICIO CAROL SECVNDI REGIS, 81mm (MP 5577 218;
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Grimshaw 1). The wide outer border un-pierced, nearly extremely fine. £150-200
James II, The Spanish Wreck Recovered, cast Bronze Medal, 1687, by George Bower, conjoined busts
of James and Mary right, he laureate, his hair falling over armour, rev the salvage operation with the
main ship and rowing boats, 52.5mm (MI 619/33; MH 59; Betts 67). A contemporary cast, very fine and
most unusual. Fe 20-3.90
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Archbishop William Sancroft (1617-1693) and the Seven Bishops, cast Silver Medal, 1688, by George
Bower, bust of Sancroft right, wearing a cap and clerically robed, rev medallic portraits and the
names of the Bishop of London and the six imprisoned bishops, 49mm (MI 622/37; Eimer 288b).
Very fine. £100-150
Archbishop William Sancroft (1617-1693) and the Seven Bishops, cast Silver Medal, 1688, by George
Bower, bust of Sancroft right, wearing a cap and clerically robed, rev medallic portraits and the
names of the Bishop of London and the six imprisoned bishops, 50mm (MI 622/37; Eimer 288b).
Very fine. £60-80
William and Mary, Coronation 1689, official Silver Medal, by John Roettier, conjoined busts of William
and Mary to right, rev Jove hurls thunder at Phaeton falling from his chariot, 35mm (MI 662/25;
Eimer 312). Extremely fine and pleasingly toned. £600-800
William and Mary, Coronation 1689, cast Silver Medal, by George Bower, conjoined busts right, he
laureate and in decorative armour, she loosely draped, rev William and Mary enthroned below canopy,
archbishops to either side hold large crown over them, 63.5mm (MI 668/38; Eimer 310b). An excellent
cast, extremely fine. £200-250
William III, Return to Holland, Triumphant Entry into the Hague, White Metal Medal, 1691, by Martin
Smeltzing, the King and his retinue being rowed towards shore at ORANIE POLD, fleet of ships across
horizon, rev palace at the Hague seen through an ornamental gateway, 50mm (MI 12/174; vL IV 7 33):
Small circular piercing at top edge, nearly extremely fine and scarce. £60-80
The King’s return to Holland was occasioned by considerable fanfare and marked by various medals.
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William III, Silver Cliché Portrait Medallion, 1697, by James Roettier, bewigged bust left, wearing
armour and ornate lace cravat, legend around, GVLLIELMVS III] DG MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX
CONSPIRITATIO DETECTA, inner legend, PAX EST COCLVSA, dated on truncation, 86mm x 69mm, in
glazed 19" century papier maché frame (MI plates [appendix], CLXXXIII, 6). Very fine but has been
creased or split across centre, excessively rare and perhaps only the second recorded example. £300-500
The legend clearly identifies the piece as commemorating the failure and detection of the Assassination Plot of 1696 and the Peace of
Ryswyck in 1697. For further reading see Helen Farquhar, Portraiture of our Stuart Monarchs ..., part V, BNJ, vol IX, 1913, p.271.
Princess Matilda and the Electress Sophia, Silver Medal, 1701, by Samuel Lambelet, bust of each to
right, either side, MATILDAN FILIA H II R ANGL ..., rev SOPHIA EX STIRPE ..., 65mm (MI 218/542;
Brockm 752; Stemper 197). Extremely fine or virtually so. £600-800
The medal was struck to demonstrate how, following the lack of male heirs by either Queen Mary or Queen Anne, the Protestant
line would succeed to the English throne, from the descendants of these two princesses, as indeed happened in 1714.
Queen Anne, Accession 1702, Silver Medal, by John Croker, bust left, crowned and draped, rev heart
within branches of oak tree, threaded through a crown and resting on a pedestal, 35mm (MI 227/1;
Eimer 388). Nearly extremely fine, lightly toned. £180-20
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Queen Anne, The Expedition to Vigo Bay, Copper Medal, 1702, by J Croker, crowned bust left, legend
reads FRA, rev panorama of the harbour at Vigo, with the Spanish and French ships burning, 37mm
(MI 236/18; Eimer 395; Betts 97; MH 120). Good extremely fine. £200-250
The gold and silver bullion captured provided considerable propaganda with the issuing of the VIGO coinage.
Queen Anne, Capture of Lille, Silver Medal, 1708, by John Croker, bust left, crowned and draped, rev
Victory holding the shield of Lille above a plan of its fortifications, 45mm (MI 338/169; Eimer 435).
Nearly extremely fine, attractively toned. £500-700
George I, Arrival in England, large Copper Medal, 1714, by John Croker, laureate and armoured bust
right, rev George, as Neptune, approaches the coast in a chariot drawn by sea-horses, Tritons and
Nereids, RECTOR MARIVM, 68mm (MI 422/6; Eimer 466). Extremely fine, scarce. £300-400
The King landed at Greenwich on the 18 September and proceeded to London on the 20 September
George I, Jacobite Rebels Captured at Preston, Copper Medal, 1715, by John Croker, laureate and
armoured bust right, rev pedestal surmounted by military arms, trophies and standards, at the base
of which are chained two rebel prisoners, 45mm (MI 435/34; Eimer 476; Woolf 31:2). Nearly extremely
fine £180-220
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George I, The Naval Action off Cape Passaro, Silver Medal, 1718, by G W Vestner, an eagle killing seven
smaller birds, NVNC NADIE CONTRA SV SENOR, rev naval action alongside a map of the coastline of
Syracuse and Messina, VICTORIA NAVAL CONTRA LOS ESPANOLES, in exergue, MDCCXVIII, 43mm
(MI 411/45). One very minor edge flaw, almost as struck with proof-like fields, beautifully toned and very
rare. £1500-2500
George I, Naval Action off Cape Passaro, Silver Medal, 1718, by John Croker, laureate and armoured
bust right, hair long, rev the King as Neptune atop a rostral column, amidst naval trophies, SOCIORVM
PROTECTOR, 45mm (MI 439/42; Eimer 481; MH 150). Nearly extremely fine. 200-300
The Spanish Fleet, commanded by Admiral Don Anthonio de Castaneta was defeated by Admiral George Byng (1663-1733),
who destroyed or captured the majority of the ships, and took the Spanish Admiral prisoner.
George I, The Naval Action off Cape Passaro, Silver Medal, 1718, by G W Vestner, busts of Charles VI
and George I within laurel wreaths, winged caduceus between them, VETANT FOEDARI FOEDERA,
rev Jupiter on his eagle and Neptune on a conch attack a fleet, SIC MOTOS FAS EST COMPONERE
FLVCTVS, in exergue, HISPANORVM CLASSIS A IOVE ET NEPTVNO DELETA, 44mm (MI 440/43;
MH 151). Toned, extremely fine with proof-like fields, very rare. £800-1200
James (III), Elder Pretender, The South Sea Bubble [Appeal Against the House of Hanover], Copper
Medal, 1721, by O Hamerani, draped and armoured bust right, VNICA SALVS, rev Hanoverian horse
trampling lion and unicorn, London in the distance, 49mm (Woolf 40:1; MI 454/63; Eimer 493).
Good very fine. £120-150
3051. =John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), Death, Copper Medal, 1722, by Jean Dassier,
armoured bust of Marlborough three-quarters right, rev Victory stands between military trophies,
42mm (MI 457/68; Eimer 495; Eisler I, 269, 7). Extremely fine. £140-180
3052 ~— Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Silver Memorial Medal, 1727, by J Crocker, bust of Newton left, wearing
open shirt, mantle around, rev seated figure of Science holding a plan of the solar system, FELIX
COGNOSCERE CAVSAS, 51.5mm (MI 469/83; Eimer 504). A few minor marks, extremely fine and lightly
toned. £250-300
3053 = Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Copper Memorial Medal, 1727, by J Crocker, Bust of Newton left,
wearing open shirt, mantle around, rev seated figure of Science holding a plan of the solar system,
FELIX COGNOSCERE CAVSAS, 51.5mm (MI 469/83; Eimer 504); Frederick, Prince of Wales, Free British
Fisheries Society, Copper Medal, 1750, by L Koch, bust right, rev fishing boat hauling in nets, 40.5mm
(MI 659/365; Eimer 629). Both very fine. (2) £80-120
3054 Queen Caroline, Coronation 1727, official Silver Medal, by John Croker, bust of Queen Caroline left,
rev standing figure of Queen Caroline between Religion and Britannia, 35mm (MI 480/8; Eimer 512).
Nearly extremely fine, minor marks, attractive toning. £150-200
3055
3056
3057
3058
3059
Scotland, The Beggars’ Benison Club, Anstruther, Scotland, oval Silver-gilt Member’s Badge (1732),
Adam and Eve naked, lion at their feet, he reaching for the apple, BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY,
rev Adonis, with spear and dog, stands over a recumbant Venus, LOSE NO OPPORTUNITY, 43mm x
29mm (MI II, 526/87; Eimer 545; D&W 57). Good very fine. £350-400
“The Most Ancient and Most Puissant Order of the Beggar’s Benison and Merryland”, better known as The Beggar’s Benison,
was a gentlemen’s club founded in 1732 and devoted to “the convivial celebration of male sexuality”. Its benison or motto,
“May prick and purse never fail you”, goes a long way to establish the calibre of the club. For a similar medal sold recently, see
the Michael Hall Collection, Baldwin’s Auction 64, 4 May 2010, lot 644.
3056 3057
Frederick, Prince of Wales, Investiture as Prince of Wales, Copper Medal, 1729, by J Dassier, his bust on
plinth, Britannia and Fame to either side, rev eagle teaching her young to fly, 41mm (MI 489/29; Eimer
516; Eisler I, 251/4). Very fine. £80-120
Prince Charles and Prince Henry, The Legitimacy of Jacobite Succession, Silver Medal, c.1731, by
O Hamerani, bust of Charles right, MICAT INTER OMNES, rev bust of Henry left, ALTER AB ILLO, edge
DIE XXXI DECEMBR MDCCXX EXTVTLIT OS SACRVM COELO, 41mm (MI 492/34; Woolf 43.1; Eimer 521).
Nearly extremely fine but stained on ILLO on the reverse. £140-180
Queen Caroline, Dassier’s Copper Medals (2), 1731, the final medal from the series of Kings and
Queens, bust right, rev Charity with children, 40mm (MI 499/44; Eimer 524); other medals from the
series, William I, Edward I, Henry I, Stephen, Henry II, Henry III, Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV,
Henry V, Edward IV, Cromwell, 37mm, William III. Generally very fine. (15) £200-250
George II, Jernagen’s Lottery, Silver Medal, 1736, by J S Tanner, Minerva stands with the attibutes of
learning, rev Queen Caroline watering palm trees, 39mm (MI.517/72; Betts 169); Liverpool Exchange and
Manchester Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum, Gilt-bronze Medal, 1796, 43.5mm; George III, Preservation
from Assassination, Gilt-bronze Medal, 1800, by Kempson; George III and Queen Charlotte, Jubilee
1809, White Metal Medal, 39mm. Very fine and better. (4) £120-150
3060
3061
3062
George II, Jubilee of the Peace of Utrecht, Silver Medal, 1738, by N van Swinderen, Belgium seated
in front of the Temple of Janus, a captive chained beside her, Fame flying above, V. LUSTR: FOED:
BELG: PACE STABIL:, rev crowned shields of Britain, Demark, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal and
Spain, ORBIS CHRISTIAN: QUIETE INTER SE COMPOSITA, 56mm (Eimer 543; MI 525/85; vL sup. 127).
Extremely fine. £600-800
Sir Robert Walpole 1° Earl of Orford (1676-1745), English Statesman, Silver Medal (1741), by Lorenz
Natter, draped bust right in high relief, ROBERTUS WALPOLE ORD PERISCELIDIS EQVES, rev statue of
Cicero, MTC [Marcus Tullius Cicero] below, REGIT DICTIS ANIMOS, 49.5mm (MI 562/193; Eimer 562).
Extremely fine, toned and very rare. £300-500
Robert Walpole, Whig MP (1701-1742), advocated the Hanoverian succession, the first British Prime Minister (1721-1742). The
portrait is after the 1726 marble bust by John Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770), at Houghton Hall, Walpole’s country house, whilst
the statue of Cicero was in the collection of Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester (1697-1759) at Holkham Hall
George II, The New Administration, Silvered-bronze Medal, 1744, the King enthroned, trampling
on eagle and triple head with snakes, rev half-length figure of the Earl Gower, PRISTINA
DIGNITATI RESTITUTUS, 41mm (MI 592/241, illus). Very fine and very rare, the silvered surface
contemporary. £150-200
John Leveson-Gower, 1% Earl Gower (1694-1754), Tory politician. Gower had served as Lord Privy Seal 1742-1743 and was re-
appointed to the post in 1744, in the words of the legend “restored to his former dignity”.
3063
3064
3065
3066
Prince Charles, the Young Pretender, 1745, Copper Medal, by C N Roettier, bust of the Jacobite Young
Pretender right, rev Britannia on the shore regards an approaching fleet, her hand resting on the gue
of St George which reveals a globe marked with the British Isles, 41mm (MI 600/251; Woolf 59:1;
Eimer 595). Extremely fine, die flaw in the reverse field. £150-200
William, Duke of Cumberland, The Battle of Culloden, Copper Medal, 1746, by Richard Yeo, bust of
Cumberland, armoured and draped, to right, rev the Duke as Hercules, tramples on Discord,
whilst raising the seated figure of Britannia, 51mm (MI 613/278; Eimer 604; Woolf 55:2). Extremely
fine. £200-250
Admiral George Anson (1697-1762), the Defeat of the French Fleet off Cape Finisterre, 1747, and the
Circumnavigation of the World, 1740-1744, Silver Medal, 1747, by Thomas Pingo, Victory holds wreath
over left-facing bust of Anson, rev Victory stands on back of sea-monster, the names of his six senior
officers around, 43.5mm (MI 634/325; Eimer 616; Betts 382; MH 345; Eimer, Pingo 38; Ford XIV, 442-
445). Extremely fine or virtually so. £400-600
The formidable commanders named on the medal rose to be Admiral Viscount Augustus Keppel, Captain Philip Saumarez,
Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, Admiral Sir Percy Brett, Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Dennis and Vice-Admiral John Campbell (the
medal with the corrected CAMPBEL spelling). The circumnavigation, over four years, is remembered for the capture at Cape
Espiritu Santo of the Spanish ship Nuestra Sefiora de Covadonga, with treasure valued in excess of £300,000. The medal is believed
to have been commissioned by Anson’s elder brother, Thomas.
Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, The Oak Society, Copper Medal, 1750, by T Pingo, bust
right, rev a sapling grows by a leafless oak tree, 34mm (MI 655/359; Woolf 62.1; Eimer 625; Eimer
Pingo 5). Good extremely fine with much original red lustre. £120-150
3067
3068
3069
George II, The State of England, Copper Medal, 1750, by Jacques Antoine Dassier, laureate bust left,
wearing armour with Garter Star and Sash, rev Britannia seated on shore, emblems around her, whilst
Mercury empties cornucopie, shipping beyond, 55mm (MI 658/363; Eisler II, 297/22). Extremely
fine. £180-220
The medal reflects the peace and prosperity that followed the Treaty of Aix-la Chapelle
Frederick Prince of Wales, Free British Fishery Society, Silver Medal, 1750, by L Koch, bust of the Prince
of Wales to right, rev fishing trawlers in an open sea, figures in foreground with barrels, 40mm
(MI 659/365). Very fine, minor marks, attractively toned. £150-200
Medals from J A Dassier’s Celebrated Contemporaries
Martin Folkes (1690-1754), scholar, antiquary and numismatist, Copper Medal, 1740, by J A Dassier,
capped bust right, rev within ornate cartouche, SOCIETAS REGALIS LONDINI SODALIS MDCCXL,
54.5mm; Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754), French mathematician, Copper Medal, 1741, by J A Dassier,
bewigged bust right, rev within ornate cartouche, UTRIUSQUE SOCIETATIS REGALIS LOND ET BEROL
SODALIS MDCCXLI, 55mm (MI 558/185, 565/197; Eimer 556, 563; Eisler II, 291, 4). Both extremely fine,
second with dark patina. (2) £80-120
Folkes’s coin collection was sold by auction in 1756 for £999 6d (see Encyclopedia of British Numismatics IV /98)
3070
3071
3072
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), poet, Copper Medal, 1741, by J A Dassier, bust right, rev legend within
ornamental cartouche, POETA ANGLUS MDCCXLI, 55mm (MI 565/986; Eimer 564; Fislenl1e292.3) oir
John Barnard (1685-1764), merchant and Whig politician, Copper Medal, 1744, by J A Dassier, bust
right in civic gown, rev legend within ornamental cartouche, ALDERMANVS CIVITATIS LONDINI
MDCCXLIV, 55mm (MI IL, 587/230; Eimer 586; Eisler II, 294, 15). Nearly extremely fine. (2) £120-150
Sir John Bernard was Lord Mayor of London in 1737
Charles Spencer (1706-1758), Duke of Marlborough, soldier and politician, Copper Medal, 1742, by
J A Dassier, armoured bust right, hair tied en queue, rev DUX DE MARLBOROUGH MDCCXLII, 54.5mm
(MI 568/202; Eimer 568; Eisler IT, 292, 5). Extremely fine. £100-150
Spencer served in Europe through the Seven Years War, fighting alongside the King at the Battle of Dettingen in 1745. He was
to die in Germany shortly after his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), Statesman, Ambassador and Viceroy to
Ireland, Copper Medal, 1743, by J A Dassier, bust left wearing Garter Sash and Badge, rev within
ornate cartouche, COMES DE CHESTERFIELD MDCCXLIIL, 55mm. (MI 582/222; Eimer 580; Eisler II, 293, 0);
Extremely fine. £80-120
bought Seaby, 1974
3073
3074
3075
3076
3077
John Campbell, Duke of Argyle (1678-1743), soldier, Copper Medal, 1743, by J A Dassier, bewigged and
armoured bust right, rev within ornate cartouche, DUX DE ARGYLE ET DE GREENWICH MDCCXLIIL,
54.5mm (MI 579/216; Eimer 577; Eisler II, 292, 7). Extremely fine. £80-120
bought Seaby, 1974
John Campbell, second Duke of Argyle, played an important part in military and political affairs during the reign of Queen
Anne, contributing greatly to the Act of Union (1707). As a soldier he distinguished himself, fighting under Marlborough at
Ramillies, Oudenarde, Lille, Ghent, and Malplaquet. In 1715 he quelled the Jacobite rebellion.
John Campbell, Duke of Argyle (1678-1743), soldier, Copper Medal, 1743, by J A Dassier, 55mm
(MI 579/216; Eimer 577; Eisler IIL, 292, 7); Archdeacon Ralph Brideoake (1665-1743), Copper Memorial
Medal, 1743, by J A Dassier, bust right, rev the Church of St Mary, Southampton, 55mm (MI 573/209;
Eimer 574; Eisler II, 293, 11). This very fine, reverse better, the first nearly very fine. (2) £70-90
Ralph Brideoake, Archdeacon of Winchester, had been Rector of St Mary’s, Southampton, when, in 1722, the church was restored
at his own expense
William Pulteney, Earl of Bath (1884-1764), statesman, Copper Medal, 1744, by J A Dassier, draped bust
right, rev legend in oak wreath, COMES DE BATH MDCCXLVIV, 55mm (MI 586/229; Eimer 585; Eisler II,
294, 14). Extremely fine. £80-120
bought Seaby, 1974
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1752), physician, antiquarian and avid collector, cast Copper Medal, 1744, by] A
Dassier, bust left in loose robe and cap, rev legend between floral and oak wreaths, PRAESES SOCIETATIS
REGL© LONDINIENSIS, 55mm (MI 589/234; Eimer 588; Eisler II, 295, 17). Good very fine. £150-200
In 1687 Sloane travelled to Jamaica as Physician to the Duke of Albemarle. Subsequently he was Secretary (1693) then President
(1727) of the Royal Society and President (1719) of the College of Physicians. In 1753, a year after his death, his many collections
became the foundation of the British Museum.
Edmund Halley (1656-1742), astronomer and mathematician, Copper Medal, 1744, by J A Dassier,
bewigged bust right wearing academic gown, rev legend within ornate border, ASTRONOMUS REGIS
MAGNAE BRITANNIAE MDCCXLIV, 54.5mm (MI 589/235; Eimer 589; Eisler II, 296, 18). Extremely fine,
OCATCe. £180-220
Halley was educated at St Paul’s School and Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1673, before journeying to St Helena where, on the 7"
November 1677, he observed a transit of Mercury. His name is given to the comet the periodicity of which he first calculated in 1705.
3078
3079
Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753), antiquarian, collector and amateur architect, Copper Medal, 1745, by
] A Dassier, 1745, bust right wearing gown, rev legend in three lines, AA A / F F/ III VIR, 56mm
(MI 590/236; Eisler II, 296, 19). Extremely fine. £80-120
Fountaine followed Sir Isaac Newton as Warden of the Royal Mint, from 1727 until his death.
John, Second Duke of Montagu (1690-1749), Copper Memorial Medal, 1751, by J A Dassier, armoured
bust left, rev the good Samaritan tends the wounds of the waylaid traveller, TV FAC SIMILITER, 55.5mm
(MI 663/369; Eimer 635). Extremely fine with a little redness to reverse. £80-120
The medal was struck after the Duke’s death for private distribution amongst his friends and family.
3080
3081
3082
George II, Accession, Silver Medal, 1760, by Thomas Pingo, armoured bust left, rev Britannia stands
against rays, with Lion and trophies, her staff topped with Liberty cap, FELICITAS BRITANNIAE, 41mm;
Coronation 1761, Copper Medal, by T Pingo, similar bust left, rev bust of Charlotte right, 41mm, 23.55¢
(BHM 3, 30; Eimer 683, 692; Eimer, Pingo 17, 19). Both extremely fine. (2) £200-300
first bought Seaby, 1979
George III, Marriage to Princess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, small Silver Medal, 1761,
by J U Hans, struck in Bayreuth, conjoined busts right, FELIX CONIUGIUM, rev legend, 24mm
(BHM 12). Very fine, rare. £100-150
George III, Coronation 1761, the official Silver Medal, by Lorenz Natter, bust right, the ribbons tying his
queue go straight back, signed LN in fold of truncation, rev Britannia crowns King, PATRIAE OVA
/ / NTI,
34mm (BHM 23; Nau 152). Extremely fine. : Bia
only 800 specimens struck
3083
3084
3085
3086
3087
William Pitt the Elder and the Stamp Act, Bronze Medal, 1766, after Thomas Pingo, bust of William
Pitt the Elder to left, draped and wearing a full-bottomed wig, rev seven-line inscription THE MAN
WHO HAVING SAVED THE PARENT PLEADED WITH SUCCESS FOR HER CHILDREN, 42mm (cf BHM
100; cf Betts 515; cf Eimer 713; cf Eimer, Pingo 34). Very fine and rare. £80-120
The dies of this medal, which was struck in the 1860s, are closely based on Thomas Pingo’s medal.
Hugh Percy, First Duke of Northumberland (1714-1786), Restoration of Alnwick Castle, Silver Medal,
1766, by John Kirk, bust of the Duke right, dated 1764, rev view of the castle, 43.5mm (BHM 107, R’).
Good very fine and extremely rare. £200-250
There are two varieties of this medal, of which this is by far the rarer, as reflected by Brown’s RRR rating.
Salford Hundred Agricultural Society, founded 1767, Gilt-bronze Medal, by Thomas Pingo, figure
of Ceres standing, right, rev open wreath of corn, 48mm (Eimer, Pingo 39). Nearly extremely fine and
rare. £80-120
The Society now incorporated into the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society. T B Bayley was appointed the first Chairman.
piftoas
3086
Christian VII (1749-1766-1808), Visit to England, Silver Medal, 1768, by Lewis Pingo, bust right wearing
Sash of Order, rev clasped hands between cornucopiz, 40mm (BHM 129, R2; Eimer 721; Eimer, Pingo 36).
Good very fine, rare. £250-300
David Garrick (1717-1779), actor/manager, Copper Tribute Medal, 1772, by L Pingo, bust right, his
hair tied behind, rev standing figures of the three muses, HE UNITED ALL YOUR POWERS, 40mm
(BHM 160; Eimer 746; Eimer, Pingo 48). Extremely fine. £100-150
1772 was the year of Garrick’s ‘Hamlet’, famous for omitting the gravedigger, Osric.
3088
3089
3090
John Locke (1632-1671), philosopher, Copper Medal, 1774, by Jacques Roettiers (1707-1784), draped
bust left, JOANNES LOCK, rev MENS HABITAT MOLEVIRG GEOR MDCCLXXIV, 53.5mm (BHM 1839, R?;
cf MI 271/73, dated 1739). Struck from rust marked dies, good very fine, extremely rare and something of a
mystery. £200-300
The British Museum (MI) lists a 1739 specimen in silver, though in the plates it is listed as ‘7X’. ML, in listing the 1739 medal,
notes that they hold the dies in their collection; they also hold the punches and, on checking, both relate to the 1774 medal. The
portrait could have been executed ¢.1731 during Roettiers’ trip to London. Snelling writes (p.57), “The late Sir Hans Sloane and
Doctor Mead ... desired him to engrave a series of the illustrious men of Great Britain, and Mr. Conduit procured him drawings
of Newton, Locke, &c”. The legend, which should read “MENS AGITAT MOLEM", is misplaced, coming from the ‘Aeneid’ (vi.
727) and not the ‘Georgics’.
John Smart (1741-1811), painter of miniatures, uniface Copper Medal, c.1777, by John Kirk after
Joachim Smith, bust to right, ... PICT EFFIG MINUT, 36.5mm (BHM 153; Eimer 764). Nearly extremely
fine, rare. £300-350
The portrait is taken from a wax by Joachim Smith. John Smart is recognised as one of the greatest English miniaturists. Daphne
Foskett, “John Smart, the man and his Miniatures”, believes that the medals were produced in 1777 to celebrate Smart's
appointment as Vice-President of the Incorporated Society of Artists.
Death of Captain Cook, Bronze Medal, 1779, unsigned, CAPT. JAMES COOK, uniformed three-quarters
bust right, reo COURAGE AND PERSEVERENCE, in exergue BORN 1728 DIED 1779, edge plain, 37mm
(Betts 555; BHM 218, R’; Eimer 778; MH 1919, 375). Light double striking to the reverse that does not detract
from an extremely fine and very desirable example of this rare medal. £5000-7000
3091
3092
3093
3094
Cardinal Henry of York, The Death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Copper Medal, 1788, by Giovanni
Hamerani, bust of the Cardinal right, rev the figure of Religion standing in the foreground, holding a
cross and bible, a lion, cardinal’s hat and crown at her feet, view of St Peter’s, Rome, beyond, 53mm
(BHM 282; Eimer 823; Woolf 73). Nearly extremely fine, some marks in the reverse field. £150-200
Prince Charles (II) Edward Stuart (1720-1788), Bonnie Prince Charlie, was born in Rome. His only brother, Prince Henry
Benedict Maria Clement (1725-1807), Cardinal York, now represented the last direct male descendant of the Stuart royal line.
Cardinal Henry of York, The Death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Copper Medal, 1788, by Giovanni
Hamerani, bust of the Cardinal right, rev figure of Religion standing in the foreground, holding a cross
and bible, a lion, cardinal’s hat and crown at her feet, view of St Peter’s, Rome, beyond, 52.5mm
(BHM 282; Woolf 73:1a; Eimer 823). Nearly extremely fine. £140-180
George III, Recovery from Illness, Silvered-bronze Medal, 1789, by J-P Droz, laureate bust
right, rev serpent climbs flaming altar, FELICITAS PVBLICA, edge gilt, 34.5 (BHM 311; Eimer 827, D&H
Middlesex 179-181); Queen Charlotte’s Birthday Celebrations (2), 1795, Copper Medal, by C H Kichler,
draped bust left, rev FROGMORE DIE XIX MAI] MDCCXCV, 34.5mm (BHM 389; Eimer 864; Pollard 10);
and Silver Medal, by J-P Droz, laureate bust right, rev similar, FROGMORE DIE XIX MAI] MDCCXCV,
34.5mm (BHM 390; D&H Middlesex 181 bis). Extremely fine or almost so, the second from rust marked dies.
(3) £180-220
John Wesley (1703-1791), White Metal Medal, 1789, by W Mainwaring, half-length bust of Wesley in
clerical vestments to right, rev figure of Wesley standing beneath a tree, preaches to a crowd standing
before him, 36mm (BHM 334; Eimer 829). Very fine and scarce. £70-90
3095
3096
3097
3098
George HI, Board of Agriculture, Copper Medal, 1793, by C H Kichler, laureate head right within
wreath and legend, rev standing figure of Ceres, plain riband above, an un-issued specimen, 48mm
(Pollard 6). Extremely fine. £80-120
Essex Agricultural Society, instituted 1793, Silver Medal, by C H Ktichler, awarded 1812, Britannia
seated with cornucopiz and lion, rev inscription in and around wreath, “Robert Mitchell Robinson
Esq: -— The Best Cart Stallion”, 45mm (Pollard 7). Very fine and rare. £140-180
Robinson was a wealthy gentleman landowner in Witham
Drayton Agricultural Society, instituted 1800, Specimen Prize Medal, Copper, by C H Kichler,
Britannia seated, holding wreath in right hand, with cornucopie and shield, lion behind, rev wreath;
Staffordshire Agricultural Society, instituted 1800, Specimen Prize Medal, Copper, by C H Kiichler,
Britannia seated, muchas previous, rev wreath; Copper Pattern or Trial foran Agricultural Society Medal,
c.1800, by C.H. Kichler, Britannia, much as previous, but no wreath, no legends, rev wreath, each 48mm
(Pollard 22, 21 and note). Extremely fine or nearly so, ink (?) stain on lion of third medal. (3) £200-250
second bought Seaby, 1979
York Minster, Copper Medal, 1796, by Thomas Wyon Sr, detailed view of York Minster, rev view of
Clifford’s Tower, fortress upon a huge mound from which troops cross right, over a drawbridge, 45mm
(BHM 418; Eimer 877). Good extremely fine. £80-120
3099
3100
3101
Admiral Adam Duncan (1731-1804), Battle of Camperdown, Copper Medal, 1797, by John Gregory
Hancock, uniformed bust of Admiral Duncan to right, rev sailor nailing the Royal Standard to ship’s
gallant mast, 49mm (BHM 426; MH 472; Eimer 884). Nearly extremely fine. £150-200
The Battle of the Nile, Alexander Davison’s Medal in Silver, as awarded to officers, 1798, by C H
Kichler, Peace stands by anchor holding shield, this a portrait of Lord Nelson, rev view of the action
in in Aboukir Bay, ALMIGHTY GOD HAS BLESSED HIS MAJESTY’S ARMS, lettered edge, FROM ALEX®
DAVISON ESQ® St JAMES’S SQUARE - A TRIBUTE OF REGARD, 47.5mm (BHM 447; Eimer 890; Pollard 15;
BBM 26; MH 482; Hennin 852). Nearly extremely fine, rare. £700-900
The Battle of the Nile, Alexander Davison’s Medal in Copper, 1798, by C H Kichler, Peace stands
by anchor holding shield, this a portrait of Lord Nelson, rev view of the action in in Aboukir Bay,
ALMIGHTY GOD HAS BLESSED HIS MAJESTY’S ARMS, lettered edge, FROM ALEX® DAVISON ESOS!
JAMES’S SQUARE - A TRIBUTE OF REGARD, 47.5mm, suspension loop and a remnant of its ribbon
(BHM 447; Eimer 890; Pollard 15; BBM 26; MH 482; Hennin 852). Good very fine. £300-400
3102
3103
3104
George III, British Victories of 1798, Copper Medal, by C H Kichler, armoured bust left, wearing
Garter George on sash, rev Britannia amidst military and naval trophies, holds up statuette of Victory,
MARI VICTRIX ..., 48mm (BHM 458; Eimer 897; Pollard 16, bust type 2). Good extremely fine. £150-200
Restoration of Ferdinand IV as King of the Two Sicilies, Lord Nelson as Duke of Bronte, Copper Medal,
1799, by CH Kiichler, bust of Ferdinand IV, armoured and draped to right, rev figure of Fame flies over
the Bay of Naples carrying a medal of Lord Nelson, inscribed HOR. NELSON DUCA BRONTI, 48mm
(BHM 479; Pollard 18; Ricciardi 59; Eimer 908). Extremely fine. £400-500
Sir Ralph Abercromby (1734-1810), Silver Tribute Medal of the Highland Society of London to the 42"
Regiment, 1801, by G F Pidgeon, bust right, ... INEGYPTO CECIDIT VICTOR, rev (after Benjamin West),
Highlander with sword drawn, captures the standard of the French Imperial Legion, Gallic legend,
impressed lettered edge, 48.5mm (BHM 512; Eimer 932; BBM [1988] 42). A much handled example,
knocks, bruises and a buffed surface, fine and rare. £120-150
The name B. WEST appears in the reverse exer
saved the wounded Abercromby,
presented the Regiment with a
killed, their next of kin.
gue with a reversed S. Soldiers of the 42" Regiment - the Black Watch - had
however he died some days later on board HMS Foudroyant. The Highland Society of London
plate to the value of 100-Guineas, and the silver medal was given to all ranks and officers or, if
3105 George HI, Matthew Boulton’s Medallic Scale, Copper Medal, c.1798, by R Dumarest, draped bust of
Boulton right, legend ends, FRI & AS, rev the medallic scale in concentric circles, 41mm (BHM 462;
Eimer 901B). Choice extremely fine. £200-250
This medal, an early example of a promotional sample for Boulton’s Soho Mint, with each numbered circle indicating how many
coins of that diameter could be struck in one minute by eight of Boulton’s presses
3106 George III, Union of England and Ireland, Silver Medal, 1801, by C H Kichler, large draped and
armoured bust left, rev Britannia and Hibernia stand facing each other, their hands clasped, 48mm
(BHM 523; Eimer 927; Pollard 24, bust type 2). Minor scuffs, almost extremely fine. £300-400
3107. George III, Union of England and Ireland, Copper Medal, 1801, by C H Kichler, armoured bust left,
wearing Garter George on sash, rev Britannia and Hibernia stand facing each other, their hands clasped,
48mm (BHM 523; Eimer 927; Pollard 24, bust type 3). Minor scuffs, almost extremely fine. £200-250
3108 George III, Peace of Amiens, Copper Medal, 1802, by C H Kichler, draped and armoured bust left,
rev Peace with olive-branch, burns trophies, 48mm (BHM.535; Eimer 941; Pollard 25, bust type 1, pl
XXIV). Extremely fine. £180-220
3109 George III, Manchester and Salford Royal Light Horse Volunteers, Testimony of Gratitude, Copper
Medal, 1802, draped bust right, linked border with hearts and open hands, rev inscription, 37mm
(Payne 217; Tancred 374). Choice mint state. £80-120
bought Seaby, 1976
Examples of the former, in gold, were awarded to officers
3110 Shakespeare, J and J Boydell’s National Edition of Shakespeare’s Works, Silver Medal, 1803, by C H
Ktchler, Shakespeare seated on rock, flanked by figures of Drama and Painting, rev legend in 16 lines,
edge named (Rev* John Moore), 48.5mm (BHM 553; MI 209/45; Eimer 950; Pollard 28). Lightly toned,
extremely fine. £80-120
on a Spink [Fearon] ticket, c.1980
The medal’s obverse reproduces the group sculptured by Thomas Banks in 1789. John Boydell (1719-1804), together with his
nephew and partner Josiah Boydell (1752-1817), published a limited edition of Shakespeare’s works in 1802 and a folio collection
of prints illustrative of the bard’s plays in 1803 to be sold by the booksellers George and William Nicol (whose name also appears
on the medal). The medals were given to each subscriber of the limited edition, although the medal was not issued until 1805.
3111 Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), theologian, chemist and ‘discoverer’ of oxygen, Death, White Metal
Medal, 1804, by T Phipson, draped bust right, rev MAGNUS CHRISTIANUS PHILOSOPHUS, around
--. COLUMBIAM ADVENIT..., 54mm (BHM 565; Eimer 951). Very fine, scarce. £100-150
The medal is a reworking of that for Priestley’s arrival in America (BHM 381)
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The Horticultural Society of London, established 1804, Copper Medal, by G F Pidgeon, for Rundell
Bridge and Rundell, two female figures adorn a herm with fruit and flowers, rev large glasshouse
against a wall ina formal garden, ALIENIS MENSIBUS AESTAS, 69mm (BHM 568A; Eimer 955). Extremel y
fine and rare. F100-150
First awarded in 1811, initially in gold, silver-gilt and silver, then later in copper, the first gold medal being presented to Sir
Joseph Banks (see lot 3143). The Society’s records for the 12 May 1812, show the award “To Robert Batty, MD, the Silver Medal
gilt, for his drawing of the design for the Society’s Medal”.
Death of William Pitt, Copper Medal, 1806, by Thomas Webb, bust of Pitt to left, rev island rock buffeted
by heavy waves and lightning, 53mm (BHM 610; Eimer 975). Extremely fine. £70-90
Charles James Fox (1749-1806), statesman, Death 1806, Copper Medal, by T Webb, for Thomason &
Jones, bust right, rev angel on globe holds wreaths, LIBERTATIS HVMANITATISQVE VINDEX, 53mm
(BHM 605; Eimer 979 var); another, smaller, unsigned, head left, rev within palm wreath, BORN ... DIED ae
39mm (BHM 609). Extremely fine. (2) £140-180
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William Wilberforce (1759-1833), Abolition of the Slave Trade, Copper Medal, 1807, by T Webb, head
of Wilberforce right, signed on truncation, rev Britannia with Pallas, Prudence, and Justice, Victory
above, I HAVE HEARD THEIR CRY - SLAVE TRADE ABOLISHED MDCCCVI 53.5mm (BHM 627; Eimer 983).
Good extremely fine. £200-300
Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807, Macaulay and Babington Token for Sierra Leone, 1807 (struck
c.1814), by G F Pidgeon and J Phillp, two men stand facing one another, their hands clasped in
friendship, WE ARE ALL BRETHREN / SLAVE TRADE ABOLISHED BY GREAT BRITAIN 1807, rev Arabic
inscription [SALE OF SLAVES PROHIBITED IN 1807], 36mm (Eimer 984; Pridmore collection (part I), lot
727; cf Vice and Pridmore, NCire July-August 1975). Good very fine. £180-220
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George III, Centenary of the Union of England and Scotland, large Silver Medal, 1807, by T Wyon Sr
and (reverse) T Martyn, conjoined heads of the King and Queen Charlotte left, he laureate, legend
around, outer legend, WITH GOD AND THE PEOPLE — THE THRONE IS IMMORTAL, wide border of
spear points, final narrow scrolled border, rev figures of the three Kingdoms hold hands, in the style
of the Three Graces, CONCORD IS THE SECURITY OF NATIONS, oak wreath around, 83.5mm (BHM 628,
R2; Eimer 981; BDM III, 599 and VI, 640; CP 31,1). A superb medal, choice extremely fine and extremely
rare. £1500-2000
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George III, Golden Jubilee Year, Copper Medal, 1809, by P Wyon, uniformed bust left, rev angel seated
on clouds, 52.5mm (BHM 652); Golden Jubilee, year completed, 1810, Copper Medal, by T Halliday,
armoured bust right, rev Imperial eagle supports crowned arms, 47.5mm (BHM 680). First good very
fine, the second extremely fine, scarce. (2) £120-150
George II, Golden Jubilee celebrations at Salisbury, Lord Radnor’s Medal, Copper, 1809, by C H Kichler,
laureate and draped bust of King left, rev arms of the City of Salisbury supported by two double-
headed eagles, 48.5mm (BHM 684; Eimer 1008; Pollard 34); The Frogmore Medal, Copper, 1810, unsigned,
published by N Hyde, uniformed bust wearing Garter Star, rev Britannia with cherubs on cloud celebrate
the Jubilee, 48.5mm (BHM 686; Eimer 1007). Second extremely fine, the first nearly so. (2) £140-180
The reverse design of the last from a drawing by the Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), the seventh child and third daughter of
George III, and later Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg.
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), Copper Death and Memorial Medal, 1809, by C H Kichler, bust right,
rev inscription in wreath, FAREWEL — BRIGHTER SCENES I SEEK IN THE REALMS OF PEACE AND LOVE,
48mm (BHM 661; Eimer 1001; Pollard 33i). Extremely fine or virtually so, scarce. £200-250
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), Copper Death and Memorial Medal, 1809, unsigned, draped bust of
Boulton right, after P Rouw, two cherubs and a view of the Soho works rev legend in 22 lines
(BHM 659; Pollard 33, note). Extremely fine. £200-250
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Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), Death and Memorial Medal, 1809, in white ‘biscuit’ ceramic, probably
Wedgwood, taken from the large medal by Peter Wyon, after Rouw, bust right in frock coat, hair tied
behind in queue, MATTHEAZUS BOULTON ESQ ..., 93.5mm (cf BHM 660). Pierced (in the making), but
much as made with some discolouration, good very fine and exceptionally rare. £250-350
The struck medal, as illustrated in BHM, reads MATTHEW. The spelling MATTHEAUS suggests a rejected prototype from
which this ceramic piece was cast. A [copy] letter from Graham Pollard relates and points out that the reading MATTHEASUS is
found on the smaller 1819 anniversary medal (see lot 3124).
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), Death and Obsequies, Copper Medal, 1809, three line inscription
MATTHEW BOULTON DIED AUGUST 17™ 1809 AGED 81 YEARS, rev six line legend within wreath, IN
MEMORY OF HIS OBSEQUIES AUGUST 24™ 1809, 40.5mm (BHM 662; Eimer 1003). Choice extremely
fine. £100-150
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), 10" Anniversary of his Death, Copper Medal, 1819, by G F Pidgeon,
after Peter Rouw, bust right wearing frock coat, rev legend within wreath, INVENTAS AVT QVI VITAM
EXCOLVERE PER ARTIS, plain edge, 63.5mm (BHM 976; Eimer 1114; Pollard pp 316-318). Choice,
virtually as struck. £200-250
This medal was issued by Boulton’s son and successor, Matthew Robinson Boulton, and som
legend on the edge.
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George III, British Victories, Copper Medal, 1810, by W S Mossop, bust of George III to right wearing
the collar and badge of the Order of St Michael and St George, rev winged figure of Victory kneeling to
left, inscribing celebrated British victories on a column, 43mm (BHM 700; Eimer 1009; MH 563); Death
of Frederick, Duke of York, Copper Medal, 1827, by B R Faulkner, bust left, rev coronet on funerary
coffin, 41mm (BHM 1275). This extremely fine, the first nearly so and scarce. (2) £120-150
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Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), as Lieutenant-General, Victories in the Peninsula, Copper
Medal, 1810, by T Wyon Jr, bust right, rev Victory stands on rock with armorial shield and broken
French standard, 49.5mm (BHM 699; Eimer 1010; Eimer, Wellington 5; Br 990). Good extremely
fine. £200-250
Joseph Hanson (1774-1811), ,The Weavers Friend’, Strangways, Manchester 1811, Bronze Medal, by
Thomas Wyon Sr, bust Hanson to right, rev large loom, press and spinning wheel, 42mm (BHM 693;
Eimer 1012). Good extremely fine, an outstanding example. £150-200
Born at Manchester, 1774, Hanson was the author of Defence of the Petitions for Peace, 1808. After retiring from business he lived
at Strangeways Hall, and was imprisoned for taking sides with the weavers in a dispute with their employers
James Sadler (1751-1828), First English Aeronaut, the Record Speed Flight over Birmingham and the
Midlands, White Metal Medal, 1812, by Peter Wyon, bust of James Sadler to left, rev balloon with two
figures in its ornamental gondola, 53mm (BHM 712; Eimer 1020; Malpas 26). Nearly extremely fine, an
attractive example of this scarce medal. £150-200
James Sadler made his first flight 4 October 1784, in a Montgolfier-type balloon with a 170-foot circumference, and made a
number of flights during 1785, only to give up following a near disaster. However he was tempted back in 1812 and taking off
from Vauxhall in Birmingham, with a Mr Burcham as his passenger, flew for 112 miles in an hour and twenty minutes. The
landing was rough and Sadler was thrown from the gondola leaving the unfortunate Mr Burcham to throw out an anchor
which caught in some trees. Burcham survived without harm though the balloon was destroyed. Sadler was the son of an
Oxford pastry cook and before he took to ballooning found employment at the Ashmolean Museum. A plaque in Christ Church
Meadow honours one of his first flights. Sadler’s son, Windham William, lost his life in a ballooning accident in 1824.
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James Sadler (1751-1828), First English Aeronaut, White Glass Paste Portrait, by 1812, D Morison, bust
right, signed and dated on truncation, modeled in high relief, set on glass (to resemble marble), and
contained in its original fitted red leather case of issue. As made, choice extremely fine. £400-600
Nothing on the model names the sitter, but comparison with Peter Wyon’s left facing bust on the medal (see previous lot),
shows a very similar portrait, here reversed. Morison advertised himself as “Modeller to the Royal Family”. See also note to
the previous lot.
George III, Centenary of the House of Brunswick, Copper Medal, 1814, by T Wyon Jr, laureate head
right, rev Britannia stands on rock with shields and lion, holding statuette of Victory, 50.5mm
(BHM 779; Eimer 1056). Minor spots on obverse, nearly extremely fine. £70-90
Ireland, George III, Centenary of the House of Brunswick, “Celebrated in the City of Cork”, Gilt-copper
Medal, 1814, by T Wyon Jr, laureate bust right, rev legend in 13 lines within shamrock wreath, .... S®
DAVID PERRIER MAYOR, 50.5mm (BHM 780; Eimer 1056, note). Marks at top both sides where suspension
loop removed, scuffed, very fine and scarce. £80-120
An example of the medal was presented to the Prince Regent at Carlton House 1 August. David Perrier (1765-1826), marked his
Mayoralty with a display of lavish hospitality at the Cork Mansion House. He had a state barge constructed for twenty oarsmen
and, accompanied by Lady Perrier, it was used for visits of state.
Samuel Fereday (1758-1839), ironmaster, Copper Medal (1814), by P Wyon, bust left in frock coat,
rev legend within wreath, A FRIEND TO HIS COUNTRY, 50mm (BHM 784). Extremely fine and very
rare. £80-120
The Treaty of Paris, Copper Medal, 1814, by T Wyon Jr, Peace halts a threatening Mars, rev shields of
the six allies within wreaths, THIS IS THE WORK OF JEHOVAH, 56.5mm (BHM 818, and supl;
Eimer 1044). Extremely fine. £120-150
The medal reverse is signed in the exergue “T WYON JUR MDCCCXI - DES FEC - & 18”, relating to its exhibition at the Society
of Arts in 1811 (for which he was awarded the Society’s Gold Medal).
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William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), Manchester Pitt Club, Glazed Silver Medal, 1813, by T Wyon Jr,
bust left, after Nollekens, rev “Pitt rousing the Genius of the British Isles to the resistance of the French
..”, 51mm, silver mount with swivel suspender (BHM 771; Eimer 1039). Frosted images on brilliant field,
mint state. £150-200
The reverse design after Henry Howard, R (1769-1847)
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), Manchester Pitt Club, Glazed Silver Medal, 1813, by T Wyon Jr,
bust left, after Nollekens, rev “Pitt rousing the Genius of the British Isles to the resistance of the French ...”,
51mm, silver mount with swivel suspender (BHM 771; Eimer 1039). Frosted images on bright field, some
tooling to medal surfaces, otherwise extremely fine. £20150
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), Manchester Pitt Club, Glazed Silver Medal, 1813, by T Wyon Jr,
bust left, after Nollekens, rev “Pitt rousing the Genius of the British Isles to the resistance of the French oe
51mm, silver mount with swivel suspender (BHM 771; Eimer 1039). Frosted images on bright field, some
tooling to medal surfaces, replacement glass, otherwise extremely fine. £120-150
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William Pitt, the Wolverhampton Pitt Club, Silver Medal, 1813, by T Wyon, bust left, after Nollekens,
rev “The Pilot that weather’d the Storm”, Pitt in classical toga, seated on rock holding rudder, ship
beyond, 50mm (BHM 772). Extremely fine. £150-200
The reverse is after a design by Edward Bird, RA
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), Memorial Medal, Copper, 1814, by T Wyon Jr, bust left, after
Nollekens, similar to the Liverpool Pitt Club medal, rev laudatory legend in 16 lines, 54mm
(BHM 786). Extremely fine. £80-120
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), Liverpool Pitt Club, Gilt-silver Medal (1814), by T Wyon Jr, bust
left, after Nollekens, rev Britannia, who protects Commerce and Europe, is crowned by Peace and
Victory, BRITAIN VICTORIOUS - TYRANNY OVERTHROWN..., 54mm (BHM 836), good very fine; Uniface
Gilt-copper striking of the reverse, 54mm, rim scuffed, very fine. (2) £100-150
The reverse is also used on a medal of George, Prince Regent, for the Peace of Paris, 1814 (BHM 804, R:)
Georgian Masonic Jewel, perhaps for an Inner Guard or Sword bearer, of circular form and glazed
both sides, crossed gilt swords on dark blue ground, one regular, the other with flamberge [flambard]
blade, border of 27 paste diamonds around (of 28, one stone missing), 51mm. Very fine and very
rare. £120-150
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George III, Waterloo Medal, 1815, framed electrotypes by B Pistrucci, conjoined, laureate and draped
busts left, of the Prince Regent, Francis I] of Austria, Alexander I of Russia and Frederick William III
of Prussia, mythological allegory around, rev Victory guiding the equestrian figures of Wellington and
Blucher, around them a border of battling giants, 133mm, attractively mounted in velvet lined frames
(BHM 870; Eimer 1067). Some of the silvering rubbed from the higher points, more noticeably on the reverse,
otherwise extremely fine. £750-950
Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), Peace in Europe, unfinished Copper Token-like Medal,
c.1815(?), unfinished laureate bust right within broad oak wreath, rev two olive branches on pyramidal
shape, impressed lettered edge, F:M: HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, 36mm (BHM 898, R2;
Eimer, Wellington Ap 1, var); White Metal Medal for his death, 1852, 51mm. Very fine. (2) £80-120
The first medal remains a mystery, BHM does not mention the lettered edge and Eimer does not record the full legend.
Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist and patron of science, Bronze Medal, 1816, by W Wyon, for
the Royal Horticultural Society, head right, rev floral garlands around open book, IN GENIUS AND
SUBSTANCIAL LEARNING HIGH, 40mm (BHM 911; Eimer 1088). Nearly extremely fine, rare. £300-350
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Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), Governor of Plymouth, Copper Medal, 1819, by Thomas
Webb, after P Rouw, bust of Wellington left, rev long biographical legend, BORN MAY 1 1769 ENT. AS
ENSIGN IN THE 73 REG. 1781... GOV. OF PLYMOUTH OCT. 5 1819, 55mm (BHM 986; Br 1824; Eimer,
Wellington 94). Good extremely fine. £100-150
James Watt (1736-1819), scientist, engineer and business partner of Matthew Boulton, Death, Copper
Medal, 1819, by J Marrian(?) for Thomason & Jones, bust left, possibly after Chantrey, rev within
wreath, IN TESTIMONY OF NATIONAL ESTEEM, 54mm (BHM 982). Extremely fine, scarce. £140-180
see also lot 3237
George III, Death of the King, Copper Medal, 1820, by C H Kiichler, armoured bust left, rev legend in
wreath, PATER PATRIA ..., 48mm (BHM 991; Eimer 1121 ; obverse Pollard type 3). Some minor scuffing,
otherwise extremely fine. £150-200
George III, Death of the King, Copper Medal, 1820, signed K, armoured bust left, wearing Garter
George on sash, rev legend within wreath, HE HAS RUN HIS COURSE ..., 48.5mm (BHM 992). Extremely
fine. £70-90
The obverse a direct copy of Kiichler’s bust (Pollard, bust type 3)
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George III, Death of the King, Copper Medal, 1820, by Isaac Parkes (Dublin), conjoined armoured
busts of George I, George II and George III to left, rev legend in 19 lines with details of each monarch,
95.5mm (BHM998). Slight edge bruise at 3 o'clock, extremely fine, scarce. £100-150
The obverse originally used on Parkes’s medal for the Centenary of the House of Brunswick (BHM 782)
Portrait Medals of George IV, from Prince of Wales to Regent to King
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George, Prince of Wales and Prince Frederick, Silver Medal (1764), unsigned, child bust of each to left
and right, Prince’s Feathers in Crown over the former, Bishop’s mitre the latter, 29.5mm (BHM 84).
Choice extremely fine. £60-80
Prince Frederick received the honorary title of Bishop of Osnabrtick in February 1764. Thomas Stainton (in his annotated copy
of BHM) attributed the medal to Thomas Pingo. Eimer does not confirm this.
George, Prince of Wales, Silver Tribute Medal, 1792, by William Barnett, draped bust left, GEORGIVS
PRIN GALL, rev King Alfred offers sustenance to a beggar, CORONAM MUNIFICENTIA SUPERAT, 48mm
(BHM 361; Eimer 848). Extremely fine, toned and rare. £200-300
The reverse depicts the story of King Alfred sharing his last loaf of bread with a beggar who, later, proved to be St Cuthbert. The
connection with the Prince of Wales seems unclear.
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George, Prince of Wales, Marriage of Princess Caroline of Brunswick, Copper Medal, 1795 (dated 1797
in error), by C H Kuchler, conjoined busts of the Prince of Wales and Caroline right, rev Hymen stands
holding torch and two armorial shields, distant cityscape with St Paul’s, 47mm (BHM 392; Eimer 865;
Pollard 9). Nearly extremely fine. £150-200
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George, Prince of Wales, the new Covent Garden Theatre, Laying of the Foundation Stone, large
Copper Medal, 1808, by Peter Rouw, bust right in high relief, signed Rouw on truncation, rev legend
in nine lines, GEORGIUS PRINCEPS WALLIARUM THEATRI REGIS INSTAURANDI AUSPICIS IN HORTIS
BENEDICTINIS LONDONINI FUNDAMENTA SUA MANU LOCAVIT MDCCCVIII, 91.5mm (BHM 638;
Eimer 990). Extremely fine and very rare. £400-500
The legend states that the Prince, “with his own hand laid the stone...”. The medal is unusual in that the sculptural bust has
been struck in high relief in silhouette form, separately from the medal, and then applied to the flan. It is usually believed
that only 18 specimens were struck, but the correct figure must be a little greater. An example of the medal sold in Spink Coin
Auction 46, 9 October 1985 (lot 552) and included a list of 17 of the supposed 18 recipients as follows: The Foundation Stone,
The King, The Queen, The Prince of Wales [7], Duke of Northumberland, Mr J Smirke, RA [the architect of the new theatre], Sir J
Lawrence, RA, Mr Payne Knight, the British Museum, Oxford [Ashmolean] and Cambridge [Fitzwilliam]. Other examples sold
include the “English Collector”, Glendining’s, 22 November 1989 (lot 223) and the Michael Hall Collection, Baldwin's, 4 May
2010 (lot 1021). A heavily gilt specimen [unrecorded thus] sold at Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 19 October 2006 (Lot 541) and is
now in an American private collection.
George, Prince of Wales, Appointed Regent, Copper Medal, 1811, by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell,
bare head right, GEORGIVS PRINCEPS WALLIE PATRIAM ... REGENS, rev the British Lion within closed
oak wreath, rose, thistle and shamrock at tie, 69mm, in warped red leather case of issue (BHM 705, R3;
Eimer -). Much handled, some very faint graffiti, perhaps a name, shows above the wreath, but nearly very fine
and excessively rare. £150-250
The actual purpose of the medal is unknown, but the reverse design suggests that, when struck in silver, it would make a
handsome presentation piece (it is only known in copper, BHM listing a single specimen, in the Ashmolean Museum)
George, Prince of Wales, Appointed Regent, Copper Medal, 1811, by T Wyon Jr, obverse after P Rouw,
head and shoulders to left, shamrock, rose and thistle below, rev the Prince enthroned, between Justice
and Britannia, REGENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, 48mm (BHM 706; Eimer 1015). Extremely fine. £120-150
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George, Prince of Wales and Regent, The Peace of Paris, Copper Medal, by T Halliday and (reverse)
T Wyon Jr, laureate head of the Prince of Wales left, rev Britannia, who protects Commerce and Europe,
is crowned by Peace and Victory, BRITAIN VICTORIOUS - TYRANNY OVERTHROWN..., 54mm
(BHM 804, R’). Extremely fine, rare. £120-150
The reverse was also used on the medal for the Liverpool Pitt Club.
George, Prince Regent, The Peace of Paris, Silver Medal, 1814, by J Barber and (reverse) T Wyon Jr,
for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, laureate bust of the Prince Regent right, rev Victory hovers over
Britannia, who comforts Europe, 69mm (BHM 805; Eimer 1043). Good extremely fine, the lightly toned
though bright surface with only the most minor of handling marks, rare. £800-1200
The medal’s reverse is from a design by Henry Howard RA (1769-1847), a painter of portraits and historical scenes.
George, Prince Regent, The Peace of Paris, Copper Medal, 1814, by J Barber and (reverse) T Wyon
Jr, for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, laureate bust of the Prince Regent right, rev Victory hovers over
Britannia, who comforts Europe, 69mm (BHM 805; Eimer 1043). Extremely fine and scarce. £300-400
The medal’s reverse is from a design by Henry Howard RA (1769-1847), a painter of portraits and historical scenes.
George, Prince Regent, The Peace of Paris, uniface striking of the obverse in Berlin Iron, 1814, by
J Barber, as previous two lots, laureate bust of the Prince Regent right, 6mm (cf BHM 805; cf Eimer
1043). Extremely fine and very rare. £80-120
George, Prince Regent and the Duke of Wellington, Copper Medal [1815], unsigned, uniformed bust
of the Prince Regent left, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ..., rev uniformed bust of Wellington left, DUKE OF
WELLINGTON, 45.5mm (BHM 857, R?; Eimer, Wellington 86). Extremely fine. £80-120
A curious medal, the obverse first seen on a box medal of the “Chronology of the Sovereigns” (BHM 783), whilst the reverse is
a slight variety of the Wellington Box Medal of British Victories in the Peninsula (Eimer, Wellington 82).
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George, Prince Regent, The Battle of Waterloo, Silver Medal, a miniature of the “Waterloo Medal”
laureate bust left, GEORGE P REGENT, rev winged Victory seated, holding palm and olive sprays,
WELLINGTON — WATERLOO JUNE 18 1815, 19.5mm (BHM 882, R’); The Dedication of Waterloo Bridge,
Silver Medal, 1817, by Thomas Wyon Jr, laureate head left, rev the Royal Standard, edge PONTE
WATERLOOENS! ..., 27mm (BHM 961; Eimer 1091). First extremely fine, the second very pines (2) £100-150
The “Waterloo Medal”, though not the miniature, was presented to all who fought at the battle. 4200 Waterloo Bridge medals
were struck from the residue silver put aside for the manufacturing of the Waterloo medals. The bridge, designed by John
Rennie, was dedicated on the second anniversary of the Battle and was completed and opened the following year. It was
demolished in 1936.
George, Prince Regent, The Dedication of Waterloo Bridge, Silver Medal, 1817, unsigned, laureate
bust left, as on first medal in previous lot, rev the full span of Waterloo Bridge, JUNE 18 1817, 20mm
(BHM 962). Extremely fine, rare. £60-80
on Spink [Fearon] ticket, c.1980
George, Prince Regent, the Bombardment of Algiers, Silver Medal, 1816, by T Wyon Jr and T Wyon
Sr [reverse], for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, laureate bust of the Prince left, wearing uniform and
medals, rev panoramic view of the action with ships firing and the city beyond, ALGIERS BOMBARDED ...,
50.5mm (BHM 923; Eimer 1083; MH 575). Choice extremely fine and rare in silver. £400-500
bought Seaby, 1977
In 1816 a squadron under Admiral Sir Edward Pellew was sent to Algiers where they arrived, in company with a small Dutch
squadron, on 27 August 1816. They sought the release of the British Consul, who had been detained, and over 1000 Christian
slaves, many being seamen taken by the Algerines. When they received no reply the fleet bombarded Algiers. Pellew was
subsequently created Viscount Exmouth.
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817), Death, Copper Medal, 1817, by T Wyon Sr, bust left,
her hair tied in chignon, rev central legend and in two lines around, 50.5mm (BHM 943). Extremely
fine. £80-120
The obverse modeled after a marble bust by Peter Turnerelli (1774-1839)
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3164 George IV, Accession 1820, Gilt-silver Medal, unsigned, by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, laureate and
draped bust turned left with classical armoured breast-plate, rev ACCESSIT XXIX IAN MDCCCXx within
oak wreath, Hanoverian horse below, 70mm (BHM 1010, R‘; Eimer 1123). Matt surface, almost extremely
fine and very rare. £700-900
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3165 George IV, Accession 1820, Copper Medal, unsigned, by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, laureate and
draped bust turned left with classical armoured breast-plate, rev ACCESSIT XXIX IAN MDCCCXx within
oak wreath, Hanoverian horse below, 70mm (BHM 1010; Eimer 1123). Choice extremely fine. £300-400
3166 Queen Caroline’s Return to England, Copper Medal, 1820, by P Kempson, laureate bust left, rev
Britannia stands welcoming her ship, 40.5mm (BHM 1021; Eimer 1130); Samuel Parr, pedagogue,
curate, uniface Copper Medal, 1821, by BR Faulkner and Mudie, head left, 41mm (cf BHM 1160, with
reverse an open book). Extremely fine and very fine. (2) £80-120
The Parr medal is most likely to have been struck to acknowledge his involvement in the Queen’s trial. Parr amassed a library
of over 10,000 volumes which was auctioned in 1828, after his death.
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George IV, Coronation 1821, Bronzed Box-Medal, probably by J G Hancock, laureate bust left, rev crown
over open wreath of national flowers, CORONATION AT WESTMINSTER, containing 16 printed (and
once joined) roundels and one (of two) printed end-pieces, of the “Chronology of the OOS of
England”, from William I and ending with “GEORGE IV - Born, 12 Aug. 1762 Whom God Preserve”, 48mm.
(cf BHM 1076; cf Eimer 1145). Box extremely fine, the roundels generally in good order. E2D0-990
This variety is unrecorded by Brown (BHM), who lists only a box (BHM 1078), with similar contents and base, but the obverse
with an un-draped bust.
George IV, Coronation 1821, and Indian Chief’s Presentation Medal, Gilt-bronze, by Rundell, Bridge
and Rundell, laureate bust turned left, wearing mantle, rev crown atop open wreath, legend around
and within, GOD SAVE THE KING - CROWNED JULY XIX MDCCCXXI, Hanoverian horse below, 69.5mm
(BHM 1088, not listed in silver; Eimer 1141; Jamieson fig 27). Bright matt surface, small test mark on
reverse edge, otherwise extremely fine and extremely rare. £400-600
A delegation of at least three Indian Chiefs visited London in 1825, including Nicholas Vincent Tsaouenhohi (1769-1844), head
Chief of the Hurons at Jeune Lorette and the Chief of the Chippewa. They were introduced to the King by Major-General Sir Isaac
Brock [Tecumseh] and General Carpenter. Jamieson (p.35) records that the King noticed the Chiefs wore the medals of George III
and promptly ordered gold medals with his effigy. In fact the Chiefs received copper-gilt Coronation medals, such as this.
George IV, Coronation 1821, and Indian Chief’s Presentation Medal, Copper, by Rundell, Bridge and
Rundell, laureate bust turned left, wearing mantle, rev crown atop open wreath, legend around and
within, GOD SAVE THE KING — CROWNED JULY XIX MDCCCXXI, Hanoverian horse below, 69.5mm
(BHM 1088; Eimer 1141; Jamieson fig 27). Sharp extremely fine. £300-400
see note to previous lot
3170 ~=George IV, Coronation 1821, Gilt-bronze Medal, by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, laureate bust three-
quarters left, wearing ornamental armour, rev the British Lion on sea-shore, with thistle and harp,
50mm (BHM 1090, R). Matt surface, extremely fine. £120-160
3171 George IV, Coronation 1821, Copper Medal, published by Thomason and Jones, laureate bust left
within wreath of roses, shamrocks and thistles, rev the King enthroned, crowned by Britannia, Hibernia
and Scotia, ANTE PROBATA MINISTRAT, 54mm (BHM1091; Eimer 1143). Extremely fine. £100-150
3172 George IV, Coronation 1821, Copper Medal, by T Webb, published by Hardman, laureate bust left, rev
radiant crown, sword and scepter on plinth, STAT REGE LEX ..., 55.5mm (BHM 1093). Good very fine but
buffed at some time. £70-90
3173 George IV, Coronation 1821, Copper Medal, by T Wyon Jr and (reverse) B Wyon, laureate bust right
in high relief, rev Britannia writes on tablet, seated by lion and shield, MAGNS SACLORUM NASCITUR
ORDO, 51mm (BHM 1101). Extremely fine or virtually so. £100-150
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George IV, Visit to Ireland, Copper Medal, 1821, by B Wyon and (reverse) G Mills, laureate head left,
rev the King steps ashore, greeted by Hibernia with harp and wolfhound, legend in exergue, edge
engraved, IRISH COPPER FROM THE MINES IN THE COUNTY OF WICKLOW, 51mm (BHM 1137).
Choice extremely fine, extremely rare with the engraved edge. £100-150
The King left London 31 July and arrived in Ireland 11 August.
George IV, Visit to Scotland, Silver Medal, 1822, by B R Faulkner, laureate bust left within wreath of
thistles, rev facade of the Palace of Holyrood, VISITED EDINBURGH AUGUST 15 1822, 52mm, fitted
with contemporary suspension loop and ring (BHM 1181; CP 33/7; Eimer -). A lovely example, nearly
extremely fine and considerably rarer than the single “R” it rates in BHM. £300-400
The medal is listed in BHM as reading AUGUST 1822, however on this example the date “15” has been stamped into the space
between. The implication is that the medal was prepared in advance and the date and loop added at the last moment for the
dignitaries to wear at any one of the several Holyrood receptions. The medal’s obverse is derived from a private Coronation
medal published by Thomason and Jones (BHM 1091). The King’s visit was an excuse for much pageantry over several days,
for the most part organised by Sir Walter Scott. The King arrived in Leith on the 14" August and came ashore on the 15" — the
date on the medal.
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George IV, Plymouth Dockyard renamed Devonport, 1824, Silver Medal, by R Ellis and J Ramsey,
Neptune standing in conch chariot with bust of King on prow, driven by two hippocamps, Fame flies
above, rev inscription in twelve lines, 55mm (BHM 1244; Eimer 1175). Good extremely fine. £80-120
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George IV, The Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature, awarded to John Gawsworth in 1939,
Silver Medal, obverse by W Bain, bare head to left, after Chantrey’s model, GEORGIUS IV REG SOC
LITT FUNDATOR ET PATRONUS MDCCCCXXIIL, rev unsigned, three figures personifying the Arts, stand
holding named tablet, HONORIS CAUSA, 69mm, Birmingham Hallmark 1938, maker Fattorini & Sons
(cf BHM 1218). Much knocked about and slight bending to flan, fine and a rare association item. | £150-200
The Royal Society of Literature was founded 17" June 1823 with George IV as its first patron, who assigned 1000 Guineas to
ten associates, and awarded two 10-Guinea medals annually. The Benson Medal was founded in 1916 by Arthur C Benson to
honour those who produce “meritorious works in poetry, fiction, history and belles-lettres”.
The obverse uses the original King’s medal dies. New reverse dies replace a standing naked figure of Mercury holding a wand
and book. John Gawsworth, born Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (1912-1970), was a writer, poet, editor, bibliographer and compiler
of anthologies. In 1947 he was crowned, as Juan I, the third king of Redonda, a tiny uninhabited island in the Caribbean.
George IV, The Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature, unissued specimen in Copper, obverse
by W Bain, bare head to left, after Chantrey’s model, GEORGIUS IV REG SOC LITT FUNDATOR ET
PATRONUS MDCCCCXXIIL, rev unsigned, three figures personifying the Arts, stand holding un-named
tablet, HONORIS CAUSA, 69mm (cf BHM 1218; Pinches p.179). Extremely fine and very rare. £150-200
Struck by Messrs John Pinches, but the medallist remains unknown.
George IV, The [Cancelled] Visit to Southampton, Copper Medal, 1823, by William Wyon, laureate head
left, rev naval crown within a wreath, PORTUM SUTHAMPTONIAE INTRAVIT - VOTIS COMMUNITATIS,
54mm (BHM 1205; Eimer 1169). Good extremely fine. £120-160
The visit was cancelled due to a combination of the King’s health and inclement weather. Wyon’s wife came from Southampton
and this might have provided the medallist with a reason for producing the medal.
George IV, Duke of Clarence, Lord High Admiral, Bronze Medal, 1827, by J Henning Snr, head right,
rev Britannia advancing right across the sea, two ships in the background, HER MARCH IS O'ER THE
MOUNTAIN WAVE HER HOME IS ON THE DEEP, 65mm (BHM 1296; Eimer 1192). Occasional light marks,
good very fine. £50-70
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George IV, Patron of the Arts, Copper Medal (1828), by T Halliday, bare head to left, rev within olive
wreath, PATRON OF THE ARTS, 42mm (BHM 1333; Eimer 1204, note); Gilt-brass Medal, undated, similar
bust, rev crown within rose, thistle and shamrock wreath, 22mm BHM 1474, R°). Both with low relief
and coin-like portraits, extremely fine. (2) £80-120
A medal struck from the same obverse die of the first and dated 1828 on the edge, proclaims to be “A SPECIMEN OF
IMPROVEMENT IN THE ART OF COINING. The second probably a gaming counter.
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George IV, The Restoration of Windsor Castle, Copper Medal, 1828, by A J Stothard, bare head right,
in high relief, rev panoramic view of Windsor Castle, the Round Tower to the left and the King George
IV Gateway to centre-right, in exergue a phoenix, RESTORED BY GEORGE IV 1828, 72mm (BHM 1337;
Eimer 1202; JT 131a). Extremely fine, a few minor stains on reverse. £300-400
The medal commemorates the completion of the first part of the works by James Wyatt [Wyatville]. The Round Tower was
raised, and other battlements added to enhance the castle’s silhouette. The King George IV Gateway was made to open onto the
Long Walk. The King was able to take up residence in December 1828.
George IV, Death 1830, Copper Medal, unsigned, bust left, rev The George IV Gate to Windsor Castle,
seen from the Long Walk, DIED AT WINDSOR CASTLE ..., 51.5mm (BHM 1391; Eimer 1219; JT 131b).
Nearly extremely fine. £80-120
Eimer suggests B R Faulkner as a possible medallist.
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George IV, Death 1830, Silver Medal, by Amédée Pierre Durand, laureate head right, GEORGIUS III
DG BRITANNIARUM REX FD, rev legend and date in eight lines, GEORGE 4™ BORN 12™ AUGUST 1762 ....
BY HIS FAITHFUL SUBJECTS ON THE CONTINENT IN TESTIMONY OR THEIR SORROW - PARIS 1830
(BHM -; P-W 91). Choice mint state. £120-160
The “Faithful subjects” in Paris responsible for this handsome medal are, sadly, unknown.
Benjamin West (1738-1820), President of the Royal Academy, large uniface Copper Memorial Medal,
1820, by George Mills, draped bust left, engraved name around, BENJAMIN WEST PRA, signed on
truncation MILLS and dated below MDCCCXxX, 91.3mm (cf BHM 862, 865 and 1055; cf BDM IV, pp.79-
82). Very fine, seemingly unrecorded and extremely rare, if not unique. £120-150
Benjamin West, the American born artist, who was the subject of four small (41mm) medals by Mills (BHM 862-865), was also
the medallist’s first Patron. All use, as indeed does this medal, the same bust, and the last (BHM 1055) is also a memorial medal.
According to the Dictionary of National Biography West “pronounced him [Mills] the first medallist in England”. George Mills
(c.1792-1824) gained three gold medals from the Society of Arts, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1816 to 1823.
Benjamin West (1738-1820), President of the Royal Academy, Death 1820, Copper Medal, by George
Mills, draped bust left, rev legend in 13 lines, 41mm (BHM 1055; Eimer 1127); Sir Thomas Lawrence
(1769-1830), Death 1830, Copper Medal, by S Clint, bare head to left and right, either side, name behind,
LAWRENGE, one side dated on truncation, 41.5mm (BHM 1448; Eimer 1215, note). This extremely fine,
the first choice. (2) £80-120
see note to previous lot
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The Elgin Marbles, Parthenon Frieze [Athens], Copper Medal, 1821, issued by Edward Thomason,
Royal Arms and Supporters of King George IV, rev facade of the Temple of Minerva, 48mm
(BHM 1061; Eimer 1140). Nearly extremely fine, scarce. £120-150
The dedicatory ‘key’ to the set of Thomason’s forty-eight medals of the Elgin Marbles. Lord Elgin completed the excavation and
removal of the marbles in 1812 at a personal cost of around £70,000. They were acquired by the British Government for display
at the British Museum in 1816.
Lieutenant-General Lord Combermere (1773-1865), Peninsular Victories, Copper Medal, 1821, by
B R Faulkner, bust Combermere to left, rev Victory advancing to left with a scroll listing the British
victories on the Peninsular, 41mm (BHM 1157; Eimer 1155). Extremely fine and scarce. £120-150
The Duke of Clarence, later William IV (1765-1830-1837), Appointed Lord High Admiral, Gilt-silver
Medal, 1827, by John Henning, head right, rev Britannia walks on the waves, ships beyond, HER
MARCH IS O’ER THE MOUNTAIN WAVE ..., 65mm (BHM 1296; Eimer 1192; MH 583). Matt surface,
virtually as struck. £150-200
The reverse legend is from the third verse of Ye Mariners Of England: A Naval Ode, by Thomas Campbell (1776-1844), first
published in 1800.
The Duke of Clarence, later William IV (1765-1830-1837), Appointed Lord High Admiral, Gilt-silver
Medal, 1827, by John Henning, head right, rev Britannia walks on the waves, ships beyond, HER MARCH
IS OER THE MOUNTAIN WAVE ..., 65mm (BHM 1296; Eimer 11927, MiE1 583): Extremely fine. £120-160
see note to previous lot
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John Scott, 1* Lord Eldon (1751-1838), Lord Chancellor, Silver Medal, 1827, by C Voigt, bust left in
legal wig and gown, rev biographical legend in twelve lines, 47mm (BHM 1308; Eimer 1197). Nearly
extremely fine, some edge knocks and bruising, scarce. £100-150
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), romantic poet, Death at Missolonghi, Copper Memorial
Medal, 1824, by AJ Stothard, his bare head left with curly hair, BYRON behind, within beaded border,
rev three young bay trees struck by lightning from a cloud above, A®OITON AIEI, impressed lettered
edge in Greek with the dedication of William Pickering and William Worthington, 63.5mm (BHM
1231; Eimer 1172); Copper Memorial Medal, 1824, signed William B[infield] F, bust left with open shirt,
LORD - BYRON, rev NATUS ... OBIT ..., 41mm (BHM 1224). First about very fine, the second better and rare.
(2) £80-120
The Duke of Clarence, later William IV (1765-1830-1837), Appointed Lord High Admiral, Copper
Medal, 1827, by John Henning, head right, rev Britannia walks on the waves, ships beyond, 66mm
(BHM 1296; Eimer 1192; MH 583). Nearly extremely fine. £80-120
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Thomas Telford (1757-1834), Institute of Civil Engineers, Telford Premium, founded 1828, Gilt-silver
Medal, by William Wyon, bust of Thomas Telford to left, rev view of the Menai suspension bridge,
shipping below on the Menai Straits, edge inscribed EDWIN CLARK, M INST C E TELFORD PREMIUM
1866, 58mm (BHM 1328; Eimer 1206). Good very fine. B2UU=ZS0
Edwin Clark (1814-1894), civil engineer who introduced various innovations in hydraulic engineering. One of his developments,
and today a popular tourist attraction linking the navigable stretch of the River Weaver with the Trent and Mersey Canal, near
Northwich, Cheshire, is the Anderton Hydraulic Boat lift.
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William IV, Accession 1830, glazed Gilt-metal Cliché of a medal obverse, by W Wyon, bare head
right, after Chantrey, 67mm, in velvet mount (from case interior) (BHM 1413-14; Eimer 1220). Mint
state. £100-150
The medal “was struck at the express command of her Majesty [Queen Adelaide], to preserve a faithful portrait of the King...”
William IV, Accession 1830, Copper Medal, unsigned [probably by T W Ingram] for Thomason, busts
of King and Queen to either side, both to right, 55mm (BHM 1423; Eimer 1221). Extremely fine. £80-120
George Stephenson (1781-1848), Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Copper Medal, 1830,
by T Halliday, head to left, rev viaduct with engine and two tenders pulling six carriages, one carrying
passengers, 46.5mm (BHM 1459; Eimer 1224; Moyaux 3; cf Swan 42-3). Good extremely fine. £120-150
Stephenson was the surveyor and later engineer for the Liver
t pool and Manchester Railway. The reverse depicts the bridge at
Newton over the Sankey Canal.
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Middlesbrough Branch Railway, Opened 1830, White Metal Medal, by T W Ingram, approach to the
railway across the Stockton suspension bridge, rev ships and barges moored at a wharf, 45mm
(BHM 1464; Moyaux 7; Eimer 1227). Nearly extremely fine, scarce. £80-120
William IV, Coronation 1831, Copper Medals (2), both by W Wyon, the official medal, bust right either
side, 33.5mm (BHM 1475; Eimer 1251); for Rundell, Bridge & Co, bust right, rev crown, trident and
oak-branch on the sea, sun’s rays behind, COLLECTASQUE FUGAT NUBES ..., 68mm (BHM 1476;
Eimer 1248). Very fine, scarce. (2) £80-120
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William IV, Opening of London Bridge, Copper Medal, 1831, by Benjamin Wyon, issued by the
Corporation of the City of London, bare head right, rev view of the bridge, 51mm (BHM 1544;
Eimer 1245; Welch 1). Extremely fine. £80-120
Tees Navigation Company, Opening of the New Channel to Newport, 1831, White Metal Medal, by
Ottley, after W A Brooks, shipping on the channel, rev fully-rigged ship, 51mm (BHM 1549;
Eimer 1242). Good very fine. £80-120
George Clint, RA (1770-1854), portrait painter and engraver, uniface Copper Medal [1832], by his son,
Scipio Clint, bust left, 51mm (BHM 1570, R?; Eimer 1261); The Repeal of the Sacramental Test and
Corporation Act, Copper Medal, 1828, by Scipio Clint, Britannia with Liberty and Religion, rev TRUTH
FREEDOM PEACE CHARITY, 60mm (BHM 1332; Eimer 1199). Both extremely fine. (2) £120-150
second bought Seaby, 1981
The first medal is identified and dated from an example (illustrated in BHM) with an engraved inscription. The portrait is after
a bust or drawing by the sculptor Henry Behnes Burlowe (1802-1837), and the medal is signed “HB [linked] BURLOWE D".
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The Reform Bill, ‘No East India Monopoly’ and ‘No Colonial Slavery’, White Metal Medal, 1831, by
Thomas Halliday, portrait cameos of William IV, Earl Grey, Lord Brougham and Lord Russell above an
anchor, rev twelve-line inscription: THE DESIRE OF THE PEOPLE / THE REFORM BILL... NO EAST INDIA
MONOPOLY / NO COLONIAL SLAVERY, 46mm (BHM 1536, R’). Nearly extremely fine, rare. £100-120
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Sir John Soane (1753-1837), The Soane Testimonial, Copper Medal, 1834, by W Wyon after Chantrey,
head right, rev facade of the Bank of England, 57.5mm (BHM 1662; Eimer 1278; JT 106a); Institute of
British Architects, Copper Prize Medal, 1834, an un-issued specimen of the silver award, by Benjamin
Wyon (with T L Donaldson), fagade of a Doric Temple, rev institute named within wreath, 57mm
(JT 24a). Both extremely fine. (2) £80-120
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The London and Birmingham Railway, Copper Medal, 1838, by G R Collis, facade of Euston Station
— the Euston Arch, dimension details in exergue, naming “Philip Hardwick Esq’ FRS Architect”, rev
the Directors named in 23 line inscription, 73.5mm (BHM 1874; Eimer 1319; JT 125a). Virtually as
struck. £250-300
y into London, running from Curzon Street Station, Birmingham, to Euston
had been appointed chief engineer and the 112 mile long line took 20,000
million. The entrance to Euston Station was marked by the imposing Doric
arch depicted on the medal, designed by Phillip Hardwick, and costing £35,000 to build. It was demolished, despite public
protest, between November 1961 and February 1962. A similar arch, also designed by Hardwick, was built at the entrance to the
Birmingham terminus. The first section of the London and Birmingham line, to Boxmoor, was opened on 20 July 1837, and the
whole line from Euston to Birmingham on 17 September 1838.
The London & Birmingham was the first railwa
Station. In 1833 Robert Stephenson (1803-1859)
men nearly five years to build, at a cost of £5%
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The “W.H. Medal”, for Encouragement of Industry, Courtesy and Integrity, Copper Medal, 1839,
by Thomas Halliday, Theatre at Athens in upper register, two other scenes illustrated on two lower
registers: Socrates in prison, and Demosthenes at dawn of day, rev inscriptions and an oval panel, in
the lower section, stamped “18”,57mm. Good extremely fine and attractive. £60-80
The medal is believed to have been issued by a Mr Walter Hawkins of Kensington, for presentation to young men starting in life
(cf Numismatic Chronicle, Third Series, vol XVII, meeting 18 February, 1897). It is accompanied by a twenty-two page book, also
published in 1839, in which it is described.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Marriage 1840, Copper Medal, unsigned, conjoined busts of Victoria
and Albert to left, rev scene of the wedding ceremony with the couple standing before priest, 46mm
(BHM 1925, R*). Good extremely fine, choice and rare. £150-200
Queen Victoria, Birth of Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal, Copper Medal, 1840, by A J Stothard,
conjoined busts of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria to left, rev five line inscription in open wreath, OB
FILIAM NATAM NOVR XXI MDCCCXL, 40mm (BHM 1953; Eimer 1346). Extremely fine, scarce. £80-120
Free Trade and Anti Corn Law League, Copper Medal, 1840, by J Taylor and Allen, standing figure, a
twisted sword in one hand and a scroll of the CORN LAWS in the other, regards a scene of distress,
rev scene of harmony in which commerce and trade are engaged, 54mm (BHM 1972, Eimer 1406).
Extremely fine. £80-120
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Richard Cobden (1804-1865), statesman, the Anti-Corn Law League, Copper Medal, 1840, by J Taylor,
bust of Cobden three-quarters right, rev Trade seated on a bale, wheat sheaf cornucopie and globe,
ships docking beyond, 44mm (BHM 1973, R°). Extremely fine and very rare. £100-150
The Duke of Wellington, Silver Medal, 1841, by B Pistrucci, bust left, FIELD MARSHALL ARTHUR
DUKE OF WELLINGTON, rev Corinthian helmet decorated with scenes from the labours of Hercules
and other myths, thunderbolt below, NOVA CANTAMVS TROPA AVGVST. 1841, 61mm (BHM 2011;
Eimer 1353; Eimer Wellington 118). An attractive example, good very fine. £600-800
Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), Repeal of the Union, Copper Medal (1843), unsigned, bust of O’Connell
left, rev crowned harp and shamrocks, 35mm (BHM 2022; Eimer 1379). Choice extremely fine. £80-120
The Thames Tunnel, Opened 1843, large White Metal Medal, published by Hyam Hyams, view of the
twin tunnels, with pedestrian and an equestrian figure, rev facade of the New Royal Exchange, 61mm
(BHM 2133, R’). Extremely fine, rare. £60-80
Total Abstinence Society, Silver Medal, 1843, by J Taylor, shield of the Total Abstinence Society, man
and woman either side holding banners inscribed SOBRIETY and DOMESTIC COMFORT, a ribbon in
the exergue inscribed BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, rev an enclosed wreath with an engraved
inscription within, MRS SAMUEL CASTLEDEN / SIGNED THE PLEDGE / SEP® 19 1843, 38mm. Extremely
fine and rare. £120-150
A Samuel Castleden, perhaps the husband of the medal recipient, appears in the 1851 census reports, showing him born in 1802
at Woburn, Bedfordshire and living in Stepney, Mile End Old Town (London).
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Thomas Gresham (1518/19-1579), Opening of the Royal Exchange, London, large Copper Medal, 1844,
by William Wyon, large bust of Thomas Gresham to left, rev detailed view of the facade of the Royal
Exchange, statue of Queen Victoria in foreground, 74mm (BHM 2185; Eimer 1390). Extremely
fine. £150-180
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Royal Visit to Germany, Copper Medal, 1845, by F F Helfricht,
conjoined busts of Victoria and Albert to left, rev eleven line inscription, 39mm (BHM 2203, R’;
BDM II, 471). Extremely fine and rare. £120-150
The royal couple visited the homeland of Prince Albert in Saxe-Coburg and the surrounding areas.
The SS Great Britain, Experimental Voyage of from Bristol to London, White Metal Medal, 1845,
by J Taylor, broadside view of the Great Britain, rev twenty-two line testimonial of the voyage, as
witnessed by its passengers, 43mm (BHM 2210; MH 594). Extremely fine and scarce. £70-80
Queen Victoria, Opening of the New Coal Exchange, Copper Medal, 1849, by B Wyon for the
Corporation of London, busts of Victoria, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal in
medals, rev interior of the Coal Exchange, 89mm (BHM 2357; Eimer 1435; Welch 6; JT 161c); Golden
Jubilee 1887, Copper Medal, by A Scharff, conjoined, young and old, busts of Queen Victoria left, rev
Britannia standing in a car drawn by two lions and flanked by Justice and Wisdom, 77mm (BHM 3284;
Eimer 1732; Welch 22). Both extremely fine. (2) £200-250
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Great Exhibition, Bronze Prize Medal, 1851, by W Wyon and L C Wyon, conjoined busts of Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert to left, rev the figure of Industry confers Labour with a wreath, edge named
F FINLAYSON & Co PRIZE MEDAL OF THE EXHIBITION, 77mm (BHM 2462; Allen 35-38; Eimer 1456).
Extremely fine. £200-300
F Finlayson & Co, manufacturers of textiles and muslins, situated at 25 Dundas Street, Glasgow.
William Wyon, Copper Tribute Medal, issued by the Art Union of London, 1854, by LC Wyon, draped
bust of William Wyon right, rev Britannia, holding trident and olive branch, standing on a scallop
Shell with four sea-horses around her, in exergue. ART-UNION OF LONDON 1854, 55.5mm (BHM.2535;
Eimer 1480; Beulah 182/7). Choice extremely fine. £80-120
Medals of the Art Union of London, Copper (3), Francis Chantrey (1781-1841), 1843, by W Wyon,
head right, rev Chantrey’s sculptured monument of James Watt; William Hogarth (1697-1764), 1848,
by LC Wyon, bust right, rev Hogarth’s painting “The Election”; David Wilkie (1785-1841), 1861, by L
C Wyon, bust right, rev Wilkie’s painting “The Village Politicians”, each 55mm (BHM 2227, 2302,
2704; Beulah 1, 4, 13; Eimer 1381, 1427, 1549). Nearly extremely fine. (3) £180-220
The Chantrey medal was the first in the Art Union of London series
Wilhelm II of Prussia, The Spithead Naval Review, Bronze Medal, 1889, by L C Lauer, uniformed bust
of the Kaiser left, rev the fleet sailing in line astern, medallic bust of Victoria above, 60mm (BHM 3368;
Eimer 1750; MH 643). Good very fine. £80-120
Queen Victoria, Diamond Jubilee 1897, official large Silver Medal, by G W De Saulles, old veiled head
(after T Brock) and young head (after W Wyon) to either side, 5.5mm (BHM 3506; Eimer 1817);
The British Empire, Jubilee 1897, unofficial large Silver Medal, by F Bowcher for Spink & Son, crowned
and laureate bust left, rev Royal arms and supporters, shields of the countries of the Empire around,
76mm. Nearly extremely fine. (2) £150-200
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Victoria, Diamond Jubilee 1897, official Silver and Bronze Medals (BHM 3506; Eimer 1817), in cases of
issue; Edward [VIII], Investiture as Prince of Wales, Silver Medal, 1911, by W Goscombe John, crowned
bust three-quarters left, rev Caernarfon Castle, 35mm (BHM 4079; Eimer 1925); Small Silver Official
Medals (5), Jubilee 1897, Coronation 1902, Coronation 1911, Jubilee 1935, Coronation 1937; and Bronze,
Tour of Canada, 1939. Mostly extremely fine. (9) £150-200
The Preston Guild, Silver Medal, 1902, by F Bowcher, conjoined busts of the Earl and Countess of
Derby to left, rev arms and supporters, 51mm (BHM 3870). Extremely fine. £60-80
King Henry II granted Preston the right to have a Guild Merchant in 1179, when he gave the town its first royal charter.
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North-Eastern Railway, Queen Alexandra Railway Bridge, opened 1909, large Bronze Medal, view of
the railway bridge, rev insignia of the North Eastern Railway and Corporation of Sunderland, 64mm
(BHM 3978; Eimer 1910; Moyaux 74). Good extremely fine and rare. £150-200
George V, Coronation 1911, large Silver Medal, by F Bowcher for Spink & Son, conjoined busts of
King and Queen Mary left, rev the King and Queen enthroned, Britannia and Lion to left, 63.5mm
(BHM 4023; Eimer 1921); another, by Fattorini & Sons, conjoined busts left, rev the Ship of State, 45mm,
Birmingham Hallmark (BHM 4033, not listed this size); Jubilee 1935, large official Silver Medal, by
Percy Metcalf, conjoined busts left, rev Windsor Castle, 57mm, in case of issue. Extremely fine or nearly
so. (3) £140-180
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London - Birmingham Railway Centenary, large Bronze Medal, 1938, by L E Pinches, view of Euston
Arch, in exergue, GEORGE CARR GLYN - CHAIRMAN, ROBERT STEPHENSON - ENGINEER, PHILIP
HARDWICKE, ARCHITECT, rev listing of the Directors of the London Midland and Scottish Railway,
65mm (BHM 4391; Eimer 2054). Extremely fine. £60-80
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974), Grand Prior of the Order of St John, Bronze Medal,
[1939] 1948, by Gilbert Bayes (1872-1953), bust left in robes of Order, rev the Clerkenwell Gateway,
70.5mm (BHM 4419; Eimer 2061), good extremely fine; Richard P Spiers (1838-1916), architect, Bronze
Plaquette, 1905, by Edouard Lanteri (1848-1917), bust left, rev Ionic capital before the Acropolis, 79mm
x 59.5mm, suspension loop added (BHM 3921; Eimer 1884), very fine. (2) £80-120
Academic, School and other Prize Medals
Birmingham and Edgbaston, Specimen Schools Prize Medal, in Copper, by T Halliday, bust of Minerva
right, wearing ornate plumed helmet, DOCTRINA VIM PROMOVET INSITAM, rev in central wreath
DIGNISSIMO, and around, BIRMINGHAM ET EDGBASTON PRAISID L L F C SCHOL PROPRIET, 58mm
(D&W 207/42; BDM IL, 389, illustrated). Choice extremely fine, scarce. £80-120
The motto, taken from Horace, translates as “Learning promotes (one’s) natural (innate) talent” or “Instruction increases the
natural power of the mind”. It is and has been used by a number of academic institutions.
Birmingham, Dr Josiah Mason, Mason’s Science College, Bronze Medal, 1880, by Joseph Moore, bust
of Josiah Mason to right, rev detailed view of Mason’‘s College, Birmingham, 51mm (BHM 3083;
Eimer 1670). Extremely fine. £60-80
Sir Josiah Mason (1795-1881), Birmingham manufactur
business in conjunction with George Elkington. Josiah
became incorporated in the University of Birmingham.
er of pens, developed a large electro-plating and copper-smelting
Mason settled a considerable endowment on Mason’s College, which
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Cambridge University, George II, Chancellor’s Medal, 1752, by Richard Yeo, specimen striking in
Copper, laureate bust of the King left, hair short, wearing mantle over armour, rev allegorical figures of
Cambridge and Liberality, the latter presenting a medal to the first of three students, the River God of
the Cam reclines, STVDIIS HVMANITATIS, 51mm (MI 667/377). Good very fine and very rare. £150-200
The Chancellor, whose generosity the medal commemorates, was Thomas Holles, Duke of Newcastle. Another example, from
the O'Byrne collection, was sold at Baldwin’s Auction 69, 3 May 2011, lot 52.
Cambridge University, Christ’s College, Porteus Medal, 1808, specimen in Copper, by J Phillp,
laureate bust of George III left, rev college gateway with arms above, 42.5mm (BHM 634; Eimer
991; JT 29c); another, a variety, 1808, by J Phillp, specimen in White Metal, laureate bust left, rev
college facade and gateway, 49.5mm (BHM 634; JT 29b). Good very fine and very fine, the second
unlisted in white metal. (2) £70-90
second bought Seaby, 1978
Cambridge University, George III, Chancellor’s Prize Medal, in Silver, unissued specimen, c.1811, by
J Kirk and (reverse) N Marchant and T Wyon Jr, laureate and armoured bust of George III
right, ... PIVS FELIX PATER PATRIAE, rev Apollo crowns a classically draped student with a wreath,
52.5mm (BHM -). Choice extremely fine, rare. £200-250
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834), “Silly Billy”, attended Trinity College, Cambridge,
1787-1790, and was appointed Chancellor in 1811, a post held until his death. The obverse of the medal had been used on the
medal of his predecessor (BHM 112), the Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), who was Chancellor from 1768.
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William, Duke of Gloucester (1743-1805), So-called “Chancellor’s Medal”, Cambridge University (1811),
in Copper, by N Marchant and T Wyon Jr, the reverse of the Prize Medal, Apollo crowns a classically
draped student with a wreath, rev legend in five lines, ARTIS CELATURAE NUMISMATIBUS ..., 53mm
(BHM 723). The Apollo die cracked at left from 7 to 11 o'clock, extremely fine and very rare. £150-200
The purpose of this medal is unknown, but it is not, as Brown declares, the Chancellor’s Medal and probably has little, if
anything, to do with Cambridge University. It seems likely that it is a trial for one side of a medal to be awarded for, as the
legend states “the art of engraving dies”, and it has been paired with the broken Cambridge Apollo simply for convenience or
demonstration. See note to previous lot.
Clitheroe, Lancashire, Stonyhurst College, Silver Prize Medal, c.1832, by T Halliday, the tower
entrance, RELIGIONI AVITAE, rev legend within ivy wreath, SS GG Q PROBATIONE ANNVA ..., 44.5mm
(JT 33b). Extremely fine, minor edge knocks. £40-60
The Jesuit College still flourishes. The building of the tower gatehouse, by Sir Richard Shireburn and depicted on the medal,
was commenced in 1592.
Cornwall, James Watt (1736-1819), Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, founded 1833, Silver Medal,
“Second Class”, by W Wyon, after Chantrey, awarded 1853, bust left, rev legend, named on edge, “To
Mr V Brooks for Lithographic Printing in Colors [sic]”, 45mm. Nearly extremely fine. £60-80
see also lot 3145
Enfield Highway, Pultney Lodge Academy, Silver Medal [1825], engraved inscription both sides,
Medal of the Third Class ... Mr John S Geldard” / “Ornatur proprus industria donis David White”,
51mm, London Hallmark for 1825, maker Thomas Wilkes Barker shaped su ion |
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Gottingen University, George III, Specimen Prize Medal, 1785, by Edward Burch RA (1730-1814),
laureate bust right, rev winged Genius leans on monument, inscribed INGENIO ET STVDIO above
medallic portrait of George IL, in exergue GEORGIA AUGUSTA ADIVDICANTE, 50.5mm (BHM 266;
Fiala 4471; Brockmann 1004). Very fine. £80-120
The Georgia-Augusta University, Géttingen, Lower Saxony, was founded in 1734 by George II, and opened in 1738. Prize
medals were awarded in gold (weighing 25-Ducats) and silver.
London, The Academy of Antient Music, founded 1710, Silver Prize Medal, 1750, by R Yeo, obverse
from a picture by Andrea Sacchi, Apollo, naked, crowns a student who plays upon a harpsichord with
a laurel wreath, behind is the vanquished Marsyas bound to a tree, rev legend suspended within the
Serpent of Eternity, INACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MERIT, 48.5mm (MI 657/362). Good very fine, though a
little scuffed, very rare. £200-250
Dr John Christopher Pepusch (1667-1752), now remembered as the composer of the ‘Beggar’s Opera’, and a number of
distinguished musicians and gentlemen formed the society for the study and practice of vocal and instrumental harmony. They
met at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand, and it was Pepusch who kept the Society going. Following his death he was
succeeded as Director by Benjamin Cooke. The picture by Andrea Sacchi, from which the obverse is taken, is called “Apollo
rewarding Merit and punishing Arrogance.”
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London, George III, The Royal Academy, Copper Specimen Prize Medal, 1768, by Thomas Pingo,
bust of King right, his hair tied, within leaf and berry border, rev Minerva seated on a rock a young
student at her side, points to a hill-top temple, 54.5mm (BHM 132, R’; Eimer, Pingo 42). Extremely fine
and very rare. S25) 55/810)
The first prize medals were awarded in December 1770. The design of the reverse was by Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-
1785), a founder member of the Royal Academy and responsible for painting much of the decoration at the Academy’s rooms
in Somerset House. Brown incorrectly identifies the seated figure as Britannia. Eimer lists only single surviving specimens in
gold, silver and copper.
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inscription both sides, “D Crichton Aged 11 Years”, 40mm. Pierced, very fine. £50-70
This medal can be attributed to the Archbishop Tenison’s Grammar School (now in Kennington), which occupied the same
building as his library.
London, Royal Society of Arts, instituted 1753, Silver Medal, awarded 1814, to MR JOHN TURNER ...
FOR AN ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING, the silver ‘Athena Medal’, by T Wyon Jr, head
of Minerva, rev details within and around wreath, with an added outer border, engraved,
THE PREMIUM GIVEN BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS MANUFACTURES
& COMMERCE IN CONFORMITY TO THE WILL OF JOHN STOCK ESQ® OF HAMPSTEAD, 65.5mm.
Nearly extremely fine. £200-250
John Stock, who died in 1788, left £1000 in a will dated 1780, the interest of which “to educate and clothe 10 fatherless children,
6 boys aged 8 to 15 and 4 girls aged 8 to 13, and afterwards put them out as apprentices or covenanted servants, paying £5 with
each boy and £2 with each girl. Annual sets of clothing were to include a chocolate coloured coat for boys and a similar gown for
girls”. His other charitable bequests included the Society of Arts receiving £100. The recipient possibly John Turner (1806-1890)
an architect, noted for his ecclesiastical buildings.
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London, The Royal Society of Arts, instituted 1753, Silver Prize Medal, awarded 1819, TO M® I P
HEDGELAND MDCCCXIX — FOR AN ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING, the silver ‘Athena Medal’,
by T Wyon Jr, head of Minerva, rev details within and around wreath, with an added outer border,
engraved THE SILVER MEDALLION GIVEN BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS
MANUFACTURES & COMMERCE / IN CONFORMITY TO THE WILL OF JOHN STOCK OF HAMPSTEAD
ESQ*, total diameter 66mm. Good very fine and highly unusual. £200-250
See footnote to previous lot.
London, Royal Society of Arts, instituted 1753, Silver Pallet, awarded 1817, “To Miss Nonnen for an
original portrait”, legend within a civic wreath, rev scroll over brushes, engraved inscription, 60.5mm
x 43.5mm, suspension loop and ring. Good very fine. £100-150
The Society then still named as “The Society for Promoting Arts, Manufactures and Commerce”. Awarded in the category “In
Polite Art”, the recipient is probably on of the four daughters of John Nonnen, an Anglo-Swedish businessman, Mary, Emily,
Charlotte and Anne. One, Emily, became a recognised artist but her birth date in 1812 makes her rather young to be receiving
a silver pallet.
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London, Licensed Victuallers’ School (Kennington), Silver Medal, awarded 1876, engraved inscription
both sides, “Awarded by the Governor ... to Mary A Vivian, Aged 14% years” / “A Reward for Good
Conduct ... let it prove a Stimulus to renewed exertion in your future career”, 50mm, London Hallmark
1876, maker James Vickery, shaped suspender. Very fine. £60-80
The school still flourishes, though now in Ascot, Berkshire.
London, Royal Academy, Architectural School, founded 1768, Ivory Ticket, details in black, named to
Francis Donkin Bedford, Admitted 23" July 1885, Renewed 2" Term of 3 years, 5" July 1888, 49.5mm
(cf D&W 141-143). Very fine. £150-200
Francis Donkin Bedford (1864-1954), moved on from architecture and is best remembered for his images of the Peter Pan story
inJ M Barrie’s “Peter and Wendy” (1911).
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Oxford, Richard Foxe [Fox] (c.1448-1528), Bishop of Winchester and founder of Corpus Christi College,
the Tercentenary of the foundation, large Copper Medal, 1817, by G F Pidgeon, bust of Foxe, full face,
eyes closed, wearing ecclesiastical cap and gown, rev legend on tablet within wreath, 70mm (MI 27/1;
BHM 959, R*; Eimer 1104). Extremely fine and rare. £120-150
The attribution to E Avern (Brown, Eimer) is the result of confusion with the signature “RB ET RAVRRR AAA FF”, for “Rundell,
Bridge and Rundell. Goldsmiths and Silversmiths”. The portrait seems to be taken from a painting in Auckland Castle.
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Portsmouth, The Royal Naval College, Founded 1806, Silver Medal, “First Mathematical Prize”,
awarded 1818, unsigned (T Wyon Jr), laureate head right, rev struck legend and engraved details
(awarded to John de Courcy Dashwood at an examination June 1818), 52.5mm (BHM 621, R*; Eimer
980; MH 560, obverse). Good very fine, some surface scratches on the obverse, rare. £250-350
The Naval Academy in Portsmouth, founded in 1729, became the Royal Naval College in 1806. The first prize medal probably
followed a few years later. John de Courcy Dashwood was the second son of Vice Admiral Charles Dashwood, KCB.
Winchester College, Silver Prize Medal, c.1761, by R Yeo, bare head of William de Wykeham
left, rev Minerva offers a palm branch to student, PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, 38.5mm (BHM 73; MI 10/2;
Gimshaw 10). Extremely fine. 120-150
Awarded for Latin verse and compositions. Sponsorship of the medals by the 1* Earl of Ailesbury ceased in 1793 following the
“Winchester rebellion” and the resignation of the Headmaster, Joseph Warton.
Winchester College, Silver Prize Medal, 1797, by J Milton, awarded to “Henricus Miers Elliott [sic]”
bust of William de Wykeham left, in cope and mitre, rev Prince of Wales’s plumes HONOREM
PRINCEPS PROPONIT, 48mm (BHM 931, date shown as 1816; MI 11/3; Stainton 16: Giene 13)
Nearly extremely fine, pin-prick either side as indication where the suspension loop should be fixed £150-200
Henry Miers Elliot (1808-1853)
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dan CRS AIKCEA IG o Winchester at the age of 10. He later became an Indian civil servant and historian. He
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Winchester College, Silver Prize Medal of George IV, by S$ Clint, awarded to GULLIELMUS HENRICUS
GUNNER, bust of William de Wykeham left, in cope and mitre, rev crowned GIV R, HONOREM PRINCEPS
PROPONIT, 48.5mm (MI 11/4; BHM -; Grimshaw 13, note). Minor edge knocks, nearly extremely fine, very
rare. £150-200
The Rev. William Henry Gunner (1812-1859), from 1836 chaplain and teacher at Winchester College. He prepared a catalogue
for the muniments of Winchester College but only extracts were published.
Winchester College, William IV, King’s Medal, specimen in Silver, undated, by S Clint, bare head of
William right, HONOREM PRINCEPS PRPONIT, rev the tomb of William de Wykeham, 48.5mm
(BHM 1560; MI 11/5, listed in both in Copper only). A little scuffed, nearly extremely fine, extremely
rare. £150-200
Woolwich, Burrage House Academy, Silver Medal, Christmas 1818, engraved inscription both sides,
“Rev‘J[ohn] Bickerdike, Tutor”, “Mast Tho Collier Prize Medal 1786 Marks”, 50mm, London Hallmark,
1817, makers Thomas and James Phipps II, suspension loop and ring. Good very fine. £120-150
Unknown location and school, Silver Medal, awarded Xmas 1852, engraved inscription both sides,
“John Edw: Martin” / “Palmam qui meruit ferat”, 47mm, shaped suspension loop. Very fine. £80-120
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3256 Scotland, Glasgow Academy, J Denhom, Silver Medal, 15 June 1809, engraved inscription both sides,
“Presented to M' Jn° Allan as the 1* Prize for Distinguished Merit at the end of a course of Geography”,
40mm, Edinburgh Hallmark, maker Robert Gray & Son, suspension loop and ring; another, 21* Feb’,
1811, similar, “Given as the 1* Prize for Distinguished merit at the end of a course of Geography to
Eliz Allan”, 40mm, worn Edinburgh Hallmark, also Robert Gray & Son, suspension loop and ring.
Very fine, both have been polished, most unusual for medals to siblings to survive together. (2) £120-150
3257 Scotland, St Andrew’s Academy, Silver Medal, 1816, engraved inscription both sides, “In Classe Physica
Acad Andreas Tulit Hocce Praemium GULIELMUS TOD” and “FELIX QUI POTUIT RERUM COGNOSCERE
CAUSAS”, 49mm (Grimshaw 129). Very fine. £80-120
3258 Scotland, The Classical Academy, South St Andrew Street (Edinburgh), oval Silver Prize Medal,
awarded 1824, engraved inscriptions both sides, “Jacobo Htton ob scientiam Graecarum literarum
Hoc Premium Dedit Guliel Steele, ornate suspension loop, 74.5mm x 45mm. Very fine. £120-150
O2ou
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Scotland, Society of Arts for Scotland, founded 1821, Silver Medal, awarded 1832, to John Robinson
Esq’ Sec RSE & Memb Soc Arts “For his Notice of Experiments on the Forth and Clyde Canal”,
helmeted bust of Athena right, rev engraved inscription within wreath, Society’s name around,
48.5mm. Nearly extremely fine. £150-200
An important award to the man who designed the world’s first proper iron boat. Built by John and Thomas Smellie, the ‘Vulcan’,
a pioneer in the early use of riveting iron plates for shipbuilding, was launched in 1819, and later published by Robinson as a
“malleable Iron Passage-boat”. She was built specifically for use on the Forth and Clyde Canal.
The ‘Society for the Encouragement of the Useful Arts in Scotland’ was founded in 1821 and incorporated by Royal Charter in
1841, becoming the Royal Scottish Society of Arts.
Scotland, Unknown Academy, oval Silver “2"* Dux” Medal, c.1835, named to Matthew Shiels / “Boys
in 1 Class”, Maker’s mark of Thomas A Finlayson (Glasgow), suspension loop and ring. Very
fine. £/0-9)
Scotland, un-named French Academy, Silver Medal, engraved inscriptions both sides, “Miss C
Young, 29 Juillet 1836” / “Geometrie”, 33.5mm, Hallmark probably Glasgow, 1830, decorative border,
suspension loop and ring. Very fine. £40-60
Scotland, Unknown Collegiate School, Silver Medal, awarded 1845, engraved inscriptions both sides,
“Ror Good Behaviour” / “Awarded in the Gymnasium to Alexander Allen by Monsieur Foucart é
47mm, decorated border, suspension loop and ring. Good very fine, has been polished. £80-120
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Scotland, Ploughing, Silver Medal of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, awarded 1841
to George Ritchie, engraved both sides, a plough rev legend, 47mm, Edinburgh Hallmark, 1840, maker
IM, shaped suspension loop. Very fine. £80-120
Glasgow, James Watt, Gorbals School, Bronze Prize Medal, 1890, by Henry Kirkwood, bust of James
Watt to left, rev six line inscription, GORBALS SCHOOL GLASGOW THEOR & PRACT CHEMISTRY TO P.
MCLAREN 1889-90, 43mm (Cochran-Patrick p.119, no.57). Extremely fine and scarce. £60-80
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Edinburgh, Surgeons’ Hall, School of Medicine, Silver Prize Medal, 1893, by Alexander Kirkwood &
Son, armorial shield of Surgeons’ Hall decorated with a cadaver and surgical instruments, rev wreath
containing an engraved inscription, 49mm (Eimer 1766; Storer 5869). Good extremely fine. £70-90
Artistic and “New Sculpture” Medals
Captain Francis Fowke (1823-1865), Silver Architectural Prize Medal of the Royal Engineers, 1872,
by G T Morgan (1845-1925), uniformed and bewhiskered bust left, in high relief, rev legend within
wreath, awarded 1893 (2™¢ Lieut W H Jones RE), 58mm (BHM 2940; Eimer 1581; JT 233a). Choice,
virtually mint state. £150-200
Fowke’s first major commission was for the Raglan Barracks in Devonport, Plymouth. He helped to superintend the machinery
section of the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855 and was very much responsible for the building of the Royal Albert Hall,
and is remembered for his work on the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh and the Prince
Consort's Library, Aldershot. The medal is a superb example of high Victorian design by a medallist who is forever linked with
the “Morgan Dollar”.
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Royal Statistical Society, William Augustus Guy, Bronze Medal, 1885, by Harry Bates (1850-1899), for
Pinches, bust of Guy right, rev wheatsheaf, 60mm (Pinches p 184); Captain A E Haynes (1861-1896),
School of Military Engineering, Bronze Medal, 1898, by Frank Bowcher (1864-1938), bust of Haynes
right, rev bridged chasm in high relief, ‘Field Fortification $.M.E.’, 56mm (N° 145491 Sapper G M
Pargiter 290 Party). Both extremely fine. (2) £80-120
Harry Bates, ARA (1850-1899) was a central figure in the British “New Sculpture” movement and also worked with the
Art Workers Guild. Captain Haynes was killed during the Matabeleland Expedition. His family raised a subscription for a
monument in Rochester Cathedral and the remaining funds went to these medals.
Art Medal, uniface cast Bronze Medal, unknown young man, signed FWM Sc, 1888, bust of a young
man left, MAR XIV - MDCCCLXXXVIIL, 68mm. Cast with an uneven undulating edge, dark patination, a
wonderfully sculptural medal, much as made, good very fine. £80-120
The cataloguers have been unable to identify “FWM” or even attribute the medal to a country, though its style suggests that it
is most likely to be English.
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Winchester College, 500" Anniversary, large Silver Medal, 1893, by Sir George Frampton (1860-1928),
seated figure of William of Wykeham, robed, holding bible and crozier and with model of the college,
scholars seated around him, rev St Mary’s Chapel, shield of arms and motto on ribband, STET FORTVNA
DOMVS, 76mm (BHM 3464; Eimer 1785; JT 27a; Pinches p.227). Extremely fine. £120-150
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Thomas de Grey, Lord Walsingham (1843-1919), politician and entomologist, Bronze Medal (1895),
by Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901), bust right, legend around in Gothic script, AUSP THOMA ..., reo
shield of arms over an African landscape filled with wildlife, PROPTER AUCTAM NATURAE SCIENTIAM,
68mm (BHM -; Eimer 1801). Very fine, though scratched or tooled on and before face, rare. £120-150
Spal
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National Eisteddfod Association Medal, large Silver Medal, 1896, by William Goscombe John (1860-
1952), the 6" century Welsh bard Taliesin, walks right playing harp, a megalithic portal tomb beyond
in rocky landscape, rev fierce Welsh dragon, curled around its wings, 76.5mm (BHM 3637; Eimer 1830;
Pearson 49; BDM IIL, 78; Pinches p.165). Nearly extremely fine, small edge bruise on reverse, between 3 and
4 o'clock. £200-300
bought Fine Art Society, c.1975
The medal was commissioned by the National Eisteddfod Association of Wales and has been awarded to prize winners in the
annual competitions since 1896 (not 1898 as stated in Brown and Eimer). The tomb depicted bears an uncanny resemblance to
Poulnabrone Dolmen in County Clare, Ireland.
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist, Silver Medal of the Linnean Society of London, 1898, by
F Bowcher (1864-1938), bearded bust left, JOH AZ LXXX, rev presentation legend within floral wreath,
76mm (BHM 3632; Eimer 1829). Extremely fine and very rare. £140-180
Bowcher’s portrait was used again on a Wedgwood plaquette and on Hooker’s memorial in Westminster Abbey.
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Thomas Edward Ellis (1859-1899), politician and leader of Cymru Fydd, Death, Copper Medal 1899,
by William Goscombe John (1860-1952), bust three-quarters left, rev Ellis’ birthplace at Cynlas, north
of Bala (Eimer 1833; Pearson 57). Extremely fine, scarce. £80-120
Goscombe John also executed the statue of Ellis in Bala, and one of the four bronze reliefs on the
medal reverse.
plinth is a similar image to the
Queen Victoria, The Entry of the Reign into the New Century, Silver Medal, 1900, by Emil Fuchs (1866-
1929), veiled bust left, rev facsimile of the Queen’s signature and date, 34.5mm (BHM 3659; Eimer 1836,
note, Mark Jones, “Emil Fuchs in England”, The Medal, 5, Spring 1985, no.4, p.25, 4). Softly sculpted, very
fine and rare. £120-150
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Queen Victoria, The Entry of the Reign into the New Century, Bronze Medal, 1900, by Emil Fuchs
(1866-1929), bust of Queen Victoria three-quarters left, her head left in full profile, rev facsimile of the
Queen’s signature and date, 27mm (Mark Jones, “Emil Fuchs in England”, The Medal, 5, Spring 1985, no 4
[35mm]; BHM 3659; Eimer 1836, note). A fine portrait of Victoria, nearly extremely fine, scarce. £80-100
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The Royal Institute of British Architects, The President’s Medal, in Bronze, by Edward Carter Preston
(1885-1965), awarded 1928, to Allan Johnson, Leeds, the motif of the Institute of facing lions either side
of a column, rev engraved legend in seven lines, 89mm. Nearly extremely fine. £80-120
Johnson also received the Institute’s Bossom Medal in 1935 (sold at Baldwin’s Auction 63, 29 September 2009, lot 1451) and
travelled to America to study commercial architecture. Circle House, Bridge Street, Leeds, c.1938, was built (as the headquarters
of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers), with a large and impressive corner window wall lighting the stairwell
and is thought to have been much influenced by this trip. In the 1930s Johnson was in practice with Victor Bain, and he later
worked with Lanchester and Lodge, with whom he was responsible for several key buildings at Leeds University in the 1950s
and 1960s
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The Battle of Jutland, large Silver Medal, 1916, by Harold Stabler (1872-1945), HMS Lion at full steam
and with guns firing, explosions around her, two ships on horizon, XXXI MAY MDCCCCXVI in exergue,
rev Naval crown above anchor and wreaths containing names of Jellicoe and Beatty, THE VICTORY OF
JUTLAND BANK, 76mm, 240.00g (BHM 4128; Eimer 1948; MH p.492, g). Matt surface with dark patination,
choice extremely fine. £400-600
HMS Lion, a battlecruiser commissioned in 1912, was Beatty’s flagship during the battle. She suffered considerable damage and
Major Francis Harvey, RM was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for ordering the flooding of the magazine of @) turret,
preventing a catastrophic explosion. The medal was the winner of a competition sponsored by the Royal Numismatic Society in
1916. Harold Stabler (1872-1945) was a prolific artist in metalwork and ceramics who, in 1915, had co-founded the Design and
Industries Association [DIA].
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Sir Frederick Pascoe Rutter (1859-1949), Insurance company director, uniface Bronze Portrait Medal,
1943, by Sir William Reid Dick (1879-1961), head to left, his name and date around, raised letters in
sunken band, 88mm. Much as made, good very fine. £80-120
Sir William Reid Dick, RA HRSA PRBS (1879-1961), Glasgow born and trained sculptor, famous for anumber of monuments and
portraits. No medals are listed by him either by Brown in BHM or by Eimer. Dick served on the Royal Mint Advisory Committee
(1936-1953), and it is quite possible that the Mint helped with the production of this cast medal.
Wembley Exhibition, uniface Bronze Plaquette, 1924, by (Frances) Madge Kitchener (1889-1977),
issued by the Royal Mint, naked female stands holding a model boat, figures atop globes to either
side, SCATTERETH AND YET INCRESETH, 77.5mm x 52.5mm. Very fine and rare. £80-120
This was one of eight plaquettes designed by different artists for sale at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 (see also following
lot). Issued by the Royal Mint, they were commissioned to encourage British medal designers to produce more modern
designs.
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Wembley Exhibition / Tower Bridge, 30 Anniversary, uniface Bronze Medal, 1924, by Percy Metcalf
(1895-1970), the towers and piers seen from a tight angle with a small boat steaming past, 63.5mm.
Very fine, rare. £80-120
This was another of the eight plaquettes designed by different artists for sale at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 (see previous
lot). Issued by the Royal Mint, they were commissioned to encourage British medal designers to produce more modern designs.
Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, RA (1850-1925), cast Bronze Plaque for the Open Championship
Horticultural Prize, signed, undated (1920s), standing figure of Flora, framed by trees, holding plant
in pot, further potted plants to either side, inscribed plaque below, “Presented by Toogood and Sons
L'* / Southampton / Seedsmen to HM The King”, 285mm x 168mm x 172mm, pierced in top corners
with chain for suspension. Very fine and a delightful arts and crafts plaquette. £150-200
Amongst many commissions, Thornycroft sculpted Boadicea and her Daughters, on Westminster Bridge and the statues of
Cromwell outside Parliament, Alfred the Great at Winchester and John Colet at St Paul’s School, London. It is believed that his
wife Agatha was the model for the Toogood plaquettes of which there are several varieties.
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RENAISSANCE PLAQUETTES FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF MICHAEL HALL
Italy
The Entombment, cast Bronze Plaquette, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio (c.1470/5-1532), the body of
the dead Christ is being lowered into a plain tomb by St John the Evangelist, Joseph of Arimathea and
Nicodemus, to right the fainting Virgin attended by three women, to the left a crouching mourner and
St Mary Magdalen holding an ewer of unguents, behind, mourners raise their arms in lamentation,
163mm x 116mm, an aftercast of considerable age, on a thick and heavy flan, 1340g, the reverse shows
to the left, the filed remains of three casting sprues, but is otherwise plain (Molinier 221; Bange 358;
Planiscig, Riccio, fig 326; Kress 207; Rossi 109). Has been pierced for attachment in top corners and centre of
base (each, to some extent, filled), very fine. £6000-8000
The Kress and Rossi specimens and an example in the Victoria & Albert Museum carry the inscription “QVEM TOTVS NON
CAPr ORBis IN HAC TVMBA CLAVDITvr’” on the side of the tomb.
This weighs in at a massive 1340g (the Metropolitan’s example is a mere 780g).
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The Virgin and Child Enthroned, rectangular Bronze Plaquette, 16" century, by Galeazzo Mondella,
known as Moderno (c.1467-1528/9), She seated on a decorated plinth and against decorative
backdrop, the Child on her left knee, a soldier and naked youth left and right with figures behind
them, infants with two chickens play at plinth’s base, plain inner border at top and beaded border
around, 146mm x 113mm (Kress -; cf Adams 37). A good cast of considerable age, pierced, very fine with
dark patination. £400-600
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The Flagellation of Christ, shaped and part openwork Lead Plaquette, an old but later cast of a 16"
century original, by Galeazzo Mondella, known as Moderno (c 1467-1528/9), Christ tied to a column,
his right hand raised above his head, his left tied behind him, to left and right a soldier and naked
man raise whips to strike, other soldiers, figures and horseman behind, 143mm x 103mm (Kress [Pope-
Hennessy] 134, fig 171; Bange 1922, 453; Cannata 26; Cott p.151; Frankfurt-on-Maine 17; London,
British Museum, T W Greene, 36; Middeldorf 230, 231; Molinier 170; Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 56;
Ricci, ii, p.132, no.169; Rizzini 39; Venice, Museo Correr, 17; cf V&T, Bardini 188). Very fine. £350-450
The Last Supper and the Denial of St Peter, Bronze Plaquette, first half of the 17% Century, Christ,
radiate, seated at the table, hand raised in blessing, the disciples around, John, to Christ's left, slumped
forward towards Him, 72mm x 147.5mm (Weber 1050, this example listed; V&T, Bardini 213). Very
fine. £400-600
The Crucifixion, rectangular Bronze Plaquette, 16" Century, by Galeazzo Mondella, known as Moderno
(c.1467-1528/9), Christ on a high cross, the two thieves to either side, Mary Magdalen clasps the cross
whilst figures support the fainting Virgin, to right two soldiers with shields, 108.5mm x 74.5mm (Kress
[Pope-Hennessy] 147 (fig 179); Lewis 2; Toderi 143; cf Adams 42; Clifford 359; Bange 454). An aftercast
but of considerable age, lacking in fine details, very fine with light brown patination. £350-450
The specimen in the Adams Collection, previously Rosenheim (lot 686), was cast with an integral border.
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The Baptism in Jordan, small oval Bronze Plaquette, 17 Century, depicting earlier style, Christ,
nimbate, stands in river, flanked by St John, left, and angel right, Holy Dove above, 48mm x 43mm.
Outlines and details tooled, very fine. £80-120
Perseus and Andromeda, small oval Bronze Plaquette, 16 Century, Andromeda stands naked, left,
chained to rocks, the monster swims in the sea before her, whilst Perseus gallops through the sky to her
rescue, 43mm x 50mm. Cast on a thick flan (approx 5mm), pierced, brown patination, very fine. £200-250
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Diana and the Satyr, oval Silvered-bronze Plaquette, first quarter of the 17 Century, style of Nicollo
de Bonis, Diana, in a wooded and rocky landscape, holding her bow above her, sheds her robe
to step into a pool, a naked cherub leans forward to adjust her hair, to the left a satyr crouches
and takes her quiver, 182mm x 142mm. The reverse drilled at compass points and set with screws for
suspension, an old though later cast and the silvering more recent, rubbed in the high spots, but very fine
and decorative. £300-400
Austria / Holy Roman Empire
Rudolph II (1552-1576-1612), circular Lead Plaquette, perhaps a design for a tazza, 17 Century, central
medal of equestrian emperor to left, inner plain border, outer wide decorative border with six further
medallic equestrian portraits of Emperors, 199mm. Pierced, two small visible flaws, old soldered repairs to
outer border, good fine. £100-150
Collector’s label dates the piece as 16" century. It was clearly and somewhat crudely made in three parts, the central medallion
and the two borders.
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France
Henri II (1519-1547-1559) and Catherine de Medici (1519-1589), pair of uniface cast Bronzed-lead
Portrait Plaques, 1559, by Germain Pillon (c.1537-1590), he, bearded bust three-quarters right wearing a
plumed soft cap, lace collar and double ornamental chain, HENRICVS. I. GALLIAR. REX. CHRISTIANISS
PP, 1559, 156mm (BMC [Jones] 114; Trésor I, XVI, 1; Maz II, 232); she, bust three-quarters left, wearing
veil, lace ruff collar and jewel on ribbon, KATHERI. REGIN. HENR. Il. VXOR. FRANCI. CAROL. ET. HENRR.
REGVM MATER, 159mm (BMC [Jones] 115; Trésor I, XVI, 2; Maz II, 234). Very fine with dark patination,
old aftercasts, first lacks border, the second with hints of border, both pierced, some tooling to lettering on second.
(2) £600-800
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Charles IX (1550-1560-1574), uniface cast Lead Portrait Plaquette, 1573, by Germain Pillon (c.1537-
1590), bearded bust three-quarters right wearing a plumed soft cap, lace ruff collar, embroidered
bodice and double ornamental chain, CAROLVS . IX . FRAN REX . CHRISTIANISS . 15[73], pellet stops in
legend, 161mm (cf BMC [Jones] 118, this with engraved legend; Trésor I, XX, 1; Maz II, 235). Very fine,
an early cast, perhaps near contemporary, the field smoothed and some fine details smoothed, the legend weak,
pierced at top and again by sitter’s left shoulder. £800-1200
Henri III (1551-1574-1589), uniface cast Lead Portrait Plaquette, 1575, by Germain Pillon (c.1537-1590),
bearded bust three-quarters right wearing a plumed soft cap, lace ruff collar, embroidered bodice and
triple ornamental chain, HENRICVS .3.DG.FRAN . ET. POL. REX 1575, pellet stops in legend, 161mm
(BMC [Jones] 120, bronze; Trésor I, XXIV, 1; Maz IL, 239; Babelon, Pillon, 239; Salton 80, bronze). Very
fine, an early cast, perhaps near contemporary, the fine details untouched by any tooling, pierced at top and
again before H of HENRICVS. ; £800-1200
As sae of Valois, he had been the first elected monarch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and with the dual titles of
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania he ruled 1573-1575, returning to France on the death of his brother
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3294 Classical Heads, pair of small circular uniface Bronze Medals, 18" Century, bust of a youth, right with
long hair and older man left, with curly hair and beard, 53mm. Smooth, lathe-turned reverses, extremely
fine, small edge nick to second. (2) £120-150
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3295 TheLast Supper, circular Bronze Plaquette, 17" Century, cast from 15" century original, Christ, nimbate,
at the head of an hexagonal pedestal table, the Disciples around, stars fill spaces, raised border and
plain outer border, 84.5mm (Weber p.20, no.13 for Modelabdrucke). Very fine. £300-400
3296 Spring and Summer, rectangular Bronze Plaquette, c.1600, loosely robed female figures, Spring
offers flowers from a fold, to Summer who holds ears of corn, 97mm x 88mm (Kress (Pope
Hennessy) 452 (fig 458); Weber 736; Toderi 338). A contemporary cast without additional tooling,
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The Penitent Magdalen, rectangular Bronze Plaquette, first half of the 17" Century, she nimbate, kneels
to the left, in rocky landscape, her head turned right and looking upwards, a cross, skull, opened
Bible and lidded cup of unguents beside her, the landscape opening to the right to reveal a distant
Jerusalem, narrow plain border around, 186mm x 153mm (Weber 432, listed from a single example in
the V&A; cf Molinari 401). Good very fine with a blackish patination. £200-250
Athena gives names to the Arts, large circular Bronze Medallic Plaque, in the style of Hans Jacob Bayr
of Augsburg, c.1600, Athena leads the personification of Painting past altar and into the circle of Arts
and Sciences, to left toppled columns and headless statue, columned facade and townscape beyond
to right, seven muses with the emblems of music, literature, arts and sciences, ornate border around,
258mm (Weber 786). The flan of slightly concave form, perhaps intended as a dish, very fine with deep brown
patination, flattened thin metal attachment loops to reverse. £400-600
Weber (1975) notes a specimen in tin as being in the Hall Collection, but this example is in bronze
Germany - Bohemia or Hungary
The Nativity, cast Silver Medal, 17 Century, the Holy Family in building left, the the arrival of the
three Kings, rev shepherd seated on a rock tends his flock, 48mm. Pierced, fine. £60-80
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Germany — North West
The Judgement of Solomon, circular Gilt-bronze Plaquette, 16" Century, the King enthroned, turbaned
attendants around, one to left, holds the up-ended baby, the women beseeching before him, whilst a
dog rests at their feet, smoother border, 84mm, smooth lathe-turned reverse (Weber 564, in tin).
The gilding contemporary, one small casting flaw, traces of soldered suspender on reverse, very fine. £300-400
The Judgement of Solomon, Bronze Plaquette, 16" Century, similar to previous, the King enthroned,
turbaned attendants around, one to left, holds the up-ended baby, the women beseeching before
him, whilst a dog rests at their feet, roped border, rev smoothed, 80.5mm (Weber 564, in tin). Very
fine. £200-250
Germany - Nurnberg
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Soldiers Supervise the Building of a Town, square Bronze Plaquette, in the style of Peter Flotner, an
old cast from a 16" Century original, two Roman soldiers indicate buildings within a wall, whilst
workmen bring more material, to left another worker outside a wall within which stands a lady,
61mm x 60mm. Uneven patination, very fine. £150-200
Pan and Syrinx, circular Bronze Plaquette, c.1570, by the Master of the Metamorphoses, amidst
a rural setting with several figures, a river, a mill building and to the front, a heron, Pan chases
Syrinx into the rushes, border around, 168mm (Weber 288). An 18" century cast, pierced in border at top,
very fine. £150-250
Pan chased the nymph Syrinx to the river Ladon, but when he reached for her she changed into the reeds growing on the river
bank, from which he later made his pipes. Most examples of the plaquette are recorded in tin.
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Corpus Christi, part silhouetted Gilt-bronze Plaquette for attachment, late 16" Century, the neh
almost in repose, laid on a cloth which is tied at top corners, 101mm x 50mm. The gilding eee
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Scenes from the Life of Christ, rectangular cast Bronze Plaquette, late 16" Century, divided into nine
panels, each with border, at each corner the Gospelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, seated and
writing, the Annunciation, the Ascension, the Nativity, and two showing him revealing himself from
the clouds, 209mm x 158mm. Pierced at corners (modern) and casting flaw in top right panel, rich dark brow
patination, very fine. £400-600
Germany - South
Mucius Scaevola at the Etruscan Camp, circular Bronze Plaquette, mid to late 16" Century, by the
Meister der Antiken Heldensagen (Master of the Ancient Epics), Lars Porsena seated in a tent with
soldiers around, before him the captive Mucius Scaevola thrusts his hand into a flaming brazier, a
tented encampment beyond, with cannon and roadway leading to city, 88.5mm (Weber 149.1; Molinier
703; Bange S 103, 1492; Bekker 270). Very fine with rich, dark patination. £450-650
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Triumph of Trivium, Bronze Plaquette, first quarter of the 17® Century, a carriage drawn by two horses,
male driver and the three female figures of Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic, 98.5mm x 191mm. Cast in
high relief and some details tooled, very fine, light patination. £400-600
Trivium, in medieval times the lower division of the seven liberal arts. The plaquette from a group of five somewhat similar
plaquettes of triumphal scenes.
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Achilles and Deidamia, rectangular Bronze Plaquette, first half of the 17" Century, the couple embrace
before a tower, from which her father, King Lycomedes, watches from a window whilst holding a
sceptre, 212mm x 131mm, numbered “VI” on reverse (cf Molinari 389M, for style). Very fine with
blackish patination, pierced at corners and central drilling on reverse for suspender (now missing). £300-400
The attribution to Achilles and Deidamia must remain tentative.
Netherlands - Flanders
The Vow of Peace, circular Bronze Plaquette, c.1580, Cli de Liedekerke, Pontus de Noyelles, Seigneur
de Bours and Wilhelm Rouck stand, surrounded by soldiers within a town setting, Peace in clouds,
hovers above, 165mm (Weber 709.3, and p.24, 41f; Lobbecke [1908] 928, tin). A contemporary cast on a
thin flan, pierced at compass points and the image rubbed, good fine and very rare. £300-400
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Francois Duquesnoy (1597-1643), Bronze Plaquette “Baccanale di Putti”, two infant fauns, seated and
playing with musical instruments, one crowns the other with a floral wreath, 114mm x 164mm
(cf Weber 1013-1015; cf Toderi 366). Extremely fine, deep brown patination. £300-400
Duquesnoy’s career as a Baroque sculptor was in Rome, but he was born in Brussels, and whilst he was responsible for many
major works there, his name is always linked to the characteristic putti and fauns with beautifully worked children’s heads,
such as seen on this plaquette.
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The Triumph of Inopia [Poverty], Gilt-bronze Plaquette, Southern Netherlands, mid to late 16" Century,
after an engraving by Hieronymus Cock after Maarten van Heemskerck, Poverty (INOPIA) seated ona
wicker cart drawn to the right by two lean mules, to the front Patience with an anvil and Servitude in
chains, behind Humility (VMI) with a cleft stick and a pomegranate, Fear (TIM) drives the mules with
a whip, and Frailty as an old woman, a distant city beyond, 66mm x 126mm (Weber 678.5; Kress (Pope
Hennessy) 456 (fig 462); Adams 221, 222; Toderi 348; Braun 109; Bange 1487; Bekker 233). An excellent
and early cast, light tooling, good very fine. £400-600
From a series of thirteen plaquettes (see the following three lots).
Children presented to a wise man, uniface oval Bronze Plaquette, late 16" Century, a mother presents
her two children to an old man, seated with a staff beside him, a soldier stands behind in archway,
60.5mm x 52mm. Good medium brown patina, extremely fine. £300-400
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Athena gives names to the Musical Arts, oval Bronze Plaquette, late 16'" Century, Athena stands
left holding spear and shield, whilst a seven piece female orchestra plays in a rural landscape, three
cherubs fly above, 57.5mm x 80mm (Weber 786; cf Dorotheum, 30 March 1998, 1258). Small flaw in
Athena's shield, but sharply cast with light patina, good very fine. £200-300
The Triumph of Humility, Bronze Plaquette, Southern Netherlands, first quarter of the 17" Century,
Humility, as an old woman leaning on a staff in a chariot, by two horses by Fear, an old man, Hope
with dove and anchor, behind the horses, Religion and Charity with three infant children to the front,
64mm x 118.5mm (Weber 678.6; Kress (Pope Hennessy) 454 (fig 460); Adams 221; Toderi 350, Braun 108;
Bange 1489; Bekker 221). An excellent and well patinated cast, some light tooling, good very fine. £400-600
From a series of thirteen plaquettes (see the previous and following two lots).
The Triumph of the Virtues, Bronze Plaquette, Southern Netherlands, first quarter of the 17" Century
or earlier, figures of Peace, Justice and Abundance seated in a carriage drawn by two lions, driven by
a child, 68.5mm x 129mm (Weber 678. 9; Kress (Pope Hennessy) 457, fig 463; Toderi 351; Braun 105;
Bange 3075; Bekker 232). As cast with wide border to left and lower edges, several sprue marks visible on the
reverse, very fine with dark patination. £400-600
The Triumph of Religion (Ecclesia), Bronze Plaquette, Southern Netherlands, first quarter of the 17"
Century or earlier, Ecclesia enthroned in a four-wheeled carriage, radiant dove above her, driven by
an old man and attended by Peace, Hope and Humility, 63mm x 123.5mm (Weber 678.11; Molinier
665; Kress (Pope Hennessy) 455, fig 461; H Hermann collection, Morton & Eden, 20 May 2010, lot 361).
Sprue marks have left small lugs to edges, very fine with good brown patination. £400-600
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Mucius Scaevola at the Etruscan Camp, circular Bronze Plaquette, first quarter of the 17" Century or
perhaps earlier, Lars Porsena reclines in draped tent, table of food and drink before him, the helmeted
Mucius Scaevola holds quiver of arrows, other soldiers and worthies watch from right, 140mm.
Very fine with rich dark patination. £400-600
The Penitent Magdalen, an oval Gilt-bronze Plaquette, first half of the 17 Century, she kneels to the
left in rocky landscape, her head turned right and looking upwards, a cross, skull and lidded cup of
unguents beside her, stippled background and smooth border, 118mm x 92mm, the back smoothed
and with two attachment lugs (cf Weber 1024). Good very fine. £200-250
The composition closely follows a print by Willem Swanenburgh I (1581-1612), engraved in 1609 after a painting by Abraham
Bloemaert (1564-1651), however the emblems have been rearranged to fit the oval of the plaquette. The print is illustrated by
Timothy Clifford in the catalogue of his medals and plaquettes (Spink, 21 May 1996, lot 413). The plaquette illustrated by Weber
is rectangular and has the image reversed.
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The Seduction of Io, oval Bronze Plaquette, early 17 Century, the naked Io seated on rock, Jupiter
disguised as a cloud, swooping down and embracing her, 81.5mm x 67mm. A sensitive plaquette, lightly
tooled, smooth and dark patination, extremely fine. £400-600
The image is taken directly from Correggio’s painting of c.1530.
A Maritime Cherubic Celebration, rectangular cast Bronze Plaquette, mid 17‘ Century, cherub seated
In a sea-car, several others around, one on the back of a dolphin with wreath, another with torch and
floral rope, 101mm x 172mm. Good very fine, dark brown patination. £200-300
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Reclining Muse, kidney-shaped Gilt-Bronze Plaquette or Attachment, mid 17" Century, draped Muse
reclines placing a wreath on the head of a classical bust, palm tree to left, 75mm x 43mm. The gilding
also covering the plain reverse, four small piercings, very fine. £80-120
Celebration or Marriage Feast, oval Bronze Plaquette, mid 17" Century, a couple and second gentleman
seated around a well spread table, to right a man in pantaloons pours wine ina long arc, from a jug to
cup, long-tailed dogs to left and right, 76mm x 100mm. Very fine, dark brown patination. £150-200
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The Virgin Mary and Saint, oval Bronze Plaquette, late 17" / early 18" Century, she to left points to the
Holy Dove, revealed by angels who pull back curtains from canopy, he to right, semi-draped, holds
crucifix, five cherubic heads below, 116mm x 86mm, the plain reverse with indented images, two small
suspenion lugs at top and traces of two more at bottom. Very fine, pierced and some old solder marks on
reverse at top, light brown patination. £250-350
The Judgement of Solomon, circular Lead / Pewter Plaquette, early 18" Century, the King enthroned
at right, three attendants stand whilst the two women kneel before him, baroque scrolled border with
four emblematic vignettes around, a hound, a swan and two of armour and weapons, 66.5mm. Very
fine. £80-120
Perhaps an off-metal squeeze of a design intended as a silver box-lid.
A Classical Head, oval Bronze Plaquette, 18° Century, bust of a youth to left, perhaps Alexander the
Great, 61mm x 48mm. Very fine. £60-80
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A Beggar Couple, Bronze Plaquette, 18" Century, the couple standing side-by-side, he leaning on
crutch, she with stick, 198mm x 124mm, 18" century, suspension loop crudely soldered to reverse.
Cast in high relief with dark patination. £200-300
Beggars were a popular subject and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, have a silhouetted carved ivory example of this same
image (1976.422.1) from the Dieppe school.
Cavalry Officers in Woodland Clearing, rectangular Bronze Plaquette, mid 18" Century, six horsemen
have galloped into the open space, infantry lines up beyond them, 66mm x 78mm, old collection
number ‘631’ painted on reverse. Very fine, dark brown patination. £120-150
A Wedding Feast, small decorative oval Bronze Plaquette, mid 18" Century, the couple seated at a
table steal a kiss, other figures around, within a baroque scrolled border with cherub head at top,
minstrels left and right, outside of the border, stippled background, 67.5mm x 86mm. Extremely fine
with medium brown patination. £120-150
The design perhaps intended to be cast in silver as a box lid.
Rural Scene, rectangular Silver Plaquette, mid 18" Century, a gentleman seated on a chair, hound at
his side, instructs three workmen who are tying bundles of sticks, 59mm x 82mm. Probably intended as
a box-lid, good very fine. ~ £120-150
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Shepherdess on a swing, rectangular Gilt-bronze Plaquette, second half of the 18"" Century, a wooded
arbour within baroque scrolls, she swings high, the swing pulled by her lover, trees left and right,
sheep under the latter, love-birds at top, 69mm x 86mm. A delightful piece, probably intended as a box-lid,
good very fine. £140-180
The image is remindful of Fragonard’s Les Hasards Heureux de l’Escarpolette of 1767, though without a third person present,
perhaps more pastoral.
The Interior of an Inn, small decorative oval Bronze Plaquette, mid 18' Century, five figures seated
around a table smoking pipes, one rests against another table, his leg on a stool, other figures stand
behind, to left a dog, beaded borer, 67mm x 89.5mm. Two small lugs for suspension, good very fine, dark
brown patination. 6120-150
The design perhaps intended to be cast in silver as a box lid.
Two Men Fighting, slightly rounded rectangular Bronze Plaquette, mid 18" Century, an official in hat
and cloak delivers a document and a punch on the nose to a man in pantaloons and breast plate, who
punches back, a crowd gathers around, 68mm x 81.5mm. Top with small piercing and slight damage where
previously pierced, very fine, light patination. £120-150
WORLD MEDALS
Austria
Maria Theresia (1717-1740-1780), Copper Medal, 1745, by J A Dassier, bust left, in gown with breast-
plate, MAR THERESIA D G REG HUNG BOH, rev Minerva seated on a cloud at the top of the globe, ET
MENTE ET ARMIS, 54.5mm (Eisler II, 144, 17; Julius 1770). Extremely fine. £80-120
General Josef, Count Radetzky (1766-1858), Erection of his Statue in Prague, 1859, Bronze Medal, by
W Seidan, large bust of Radetzky to left, rev statue, 80mm (Wiirz 7771; BDM V, 464). Almost extremely
fine, small nick on cheek. £80-100
Belgium
3335 Leopold I (1790-1831-1865), Abolition of Laws, large Bronze Medal, 1860, by L Wiener, bust of Leopold
I to left, rev figure of Mercury stands upon the front of a winged chariot, 75mm Extremely fine. £70-90
Cyprus
3336 Queen Caterina Cornaro, 500% Anniversary, large cast Bronze Medal, 1989, by Jacqueline Stieger,
large crowned bust of Caterina Cornaro three-quarters left, rev large armorial shield, crowned, 77mm.
Almost extremely fine, a fine cast with an attractive patina. £80-100
The medal is accompanied by a descriptive pamphlet outlining the background to its issue.
France
3337 3338
3337 Raoul de Rostaing, uniface Lead Medal, bust right, wearing classical armour and sash, on pedestal,
RAOVL DE ROSTAING BARON ET CAPITAINE ALLEMAND 1324, 64mm (BMC [Jones] II, 341, obverse).
Very fine. £80-120
ex The Michael Hall Collection
3338 Jacques de Vitry, Bronze Medal, 1515, Italian School, bust left, D IACOBVS DE VITRI, rev ME AB
EXPECTATIONE MEA NON CONFVNDAS, angel with the Vitry shield, 48mm (Armand II, 144, 27).
Contemporary, about very fine. £200-250
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3339
3340
3341
Antoine Ruzé (1581-1632), Marquis d’Effiat and Longjumeau, Finance Minister, cast Bronze Medal,
1629, unsigned (by Warin) bust right, rev QVID QVID EST IVSSVM LEVE EST, Hercules helping Atlas
bear the globe, 65mm (BMC [Jones] 181; Kess Coll 569). Twice pierced neatly, an old aftercast, very fine with
brown patina. £200-250
Louis XIV (1638-1643-1715), and Anne of Austria (1601-1666), cast Bronze Medal, 1643, by Abraham
Dupré (1604-1647, son of Guillaume Dupré), conjoined busts right, he laureate in armour, wearing
the Badge of the St Esprit, rev Apollo driving the chariot of the sun towards the morning star above a
landscape with town and castle, HAC SOLEM PRAVIA DVCIT, 49.5mm (BMC [Jones] II, 76). Good very
fine, an original cast on thin flan, brown patination. £250-300
Louis XIV (1638-1643-1715), the Bombardment of Genoa by Abraham de Quesnay’s fleet, Pewter
Medal, 1684, by Michel Molart and Charles Jean Francois Chéron, armoured bust to left, rev Jupiter,
semi-draped, brandishes a thunderbolt, behind a panorama of Genoa showing the French fleet and
the bombardment, VIBRATA IN SVPERBOS FVLMINA, 68mm (MH 90; BDM IV, 119). Good very fine and
extremely rare. £80-120
The bombardment of Genoa formed part of the so-called War of the Reunions (1683-1684), and was a reprisal for the city’s
support of the Spanish Empire, especially because Genoa served as the port for the Spanish Duchy of Milan.
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3342
3343
3344
3345
Louis XV (1710-1715-1774), Tranquility in Europe after the French intervention in Basel, Copper Medal,
1740, by J Dassier, armoured bust of King right, rev sun shines on globe, cherub with cornucopie
points to Basel, UNDIQUE SERENAT, 54.5mm (Eisler, II, 142, 12; Schweizer Med 82). Good very
fine. £80-120
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755), Copper Medal, 1753, by J A Dassier, CAROL
DE SECONDAT BRO DE MONTESVIEV, bare headed bust left, rev Truth and Justice together, HINC
IVRA, 61mm (Eisler II, 370, 1; Trésor pl XLVIL 6). Extremely fine. £80-120
Jean Duvivier (1687-1761), engraver of coins and medals, Copper Tribute Medal to his father,
1761, by Benjamin Duvivier, bust of Jean Duvivier right, rev legend in nine lines, PARENTI CARISS
NUMISMATUM INCISORI EXIMIO REG PICTURZ ET SCULPT ACADEMIA PARIS SOCIO HOCCE PIETATIS
MONUM PS B DUVIVIER FIL. ET ALUMNUS CALL. ET CONS, 41.5mm (Nocq 257), extremely fine and rare;
Small Bronze Tribute Medal to J-P Droz, 1902, by Huguenin for the Swiss Numismatic Society, 27mm,
very fine. (2) E1205 50
The Duvivier medal was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1798.
Louis XV (1710-1715-1774), Marriage of the Dauphin to Marie Antoinette, Silver Medal, 1770, by Lorthior,
head of Louis to right, rev the Dauphin and Marie Antoinette at altar, La France and Austria stand
behind, SACRUM AETERNA! CONCORDIA: PIGNUS, 38mm (Julius 2600). Choice extremely fine. £150-200
Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, 11" and youngest daughter (15 child) of Joseph I and Maria Theresia
——
3346
3347
Albertine, Baroness of Nivenheim, large circular Bronze Portrait Plaque, after a terracotta by Jean-
Baptiste Nini (1717-1786), her bust right, hair tied back and in ringlets, wearing low-cut embroidered
dress with bow tied at front, 148.5mm (cf Biaarrdi & Sibille 68; BDM IV, 268-276). A 19" century cast of
good quality, much as made, very fine. £150-200
The medal is very similar in style of manufacture to that of Madame de Flesselles, sold at Baldwin’s Auction 74, 9 May 2012, lot 1964.
Louis XVI (1754-1793, King 1774-1791), “The King’s Farewell”, Copper Medal, 1793, by C H Kuchler,
conjoined busts of King and Marie Antoinette, rev the King bids a farewell to his family, the guillotine
visible through the window, 47.5mm (Pollard 1; Henin 463; Julius 251); The Execution of Louis XVI,
Copper Medal, 1793, by C H Kichler, conjoined busts of the King and Marie Antoinette right, rev the
King’s head held up to the crowds and militia around the guillotine, 51mm (Pollard 2; Hennin 465;
Julius 254). First extremely fine, the second nearly so. (2) £250-300
Struck by Boulton at the Soho Mint, Birmingham.
3348
3349
3350
3351
33D2
3349
Louis XVI (1754-1793; King 1774-1791), The Execution, Copper Medal, 1793, by C H Kuchler, conjoined
busts of the King and Marie Antoinette right, rev the King’s head held up to the crowds, crowds
and militia around the guillotine, 51mm (Pollard 2; Hennin 465; Julius 254); The Execution of Marie
Antoinette, Copper Medal, 1793, by C.H. Kichler, bust left, her hair tied high, rev the Queen seated
in the tumbril being taken through the crowds to the guillotine, 48mm (Pollard 4; Hennin 533; Julius
331); Sweden, Gustav III Adolf (1746-1771-1792), Assassination, Copper Medal, 1792, by CH Ktchler,
armoured bust right, rev Fortune and cherub at monument, 55.5mm (Pollard 3). Second extremely fine,
the first and third nearly so. (3) £300-350
Struck by Boulton at the Soho Mint, Birmingham.
3350 3351
Revolution, Siege de la Bastille, large uniface Bronzed-lead Medal, 1789, by Bertrand Andrieu,
lines of infantry and batteries surround the foot of the Bastille, 85mm (Hennin 23). Nearly extremely
fine. £120-150
Constitution, ‘Pacte Fédératif’, oval Gilt-bronze Medal, 1790, by Dupré, soldiers salute the figure of
the Republic, rev legend in six lines within oak wreath, NOUS JURONS ..., 39mm x 29mm, integral
suspension loop (Hennin 165). Extremely fine. £80-120
Regimental Masonic Jewel or Badge, dated in the Masonic calendar 5802 [1802], uniface, in
Tin, sun and moon over Masonic emblems within open wreath, LA CONCORDE A L’O DU 12!
REGIMENT D’HUSSARDS - 5802, 49mm x 41mm. Small double-piercings at compass points, extremely fine
and very rare. £120-150
The 12 Regiment of Hussars was formed 9 February 1794. Previously the Regiment's title had been the Hussards de la
Montagne, originally formed in 1793. In 1803 it became the 30" Regiment of Dragoons, reforming as the 12" Hussars ten years
later. The Regiment served in Spain as the 9* Hussars. In 1802 the Chef de Brigade was Jean-Francois Dupré.
Directoire, Conquest of Upper Egypt, Copper Medal, Year VII [1799], by Galle and Denon, bust
of a pharaoh left, rev crocodile chained to a palm tree, 35mm (Hennin 896; Julius 694); Napoleon
Preparations for the Invasion of England, Copper Medal, Year 4 (1802), by Brenet and Denon, bust ie
rev Fortune steers galley to left, LA FORTUNE CONSERVATRICE, 33mm (Br 275; Julius 1172). Extremely
ine. (2
fine. (2) £80-120
3353 Napoleon I (1804-1814, 1815), Premier Consul, Silver Jeton, Agents de Change de Lyon, 1803, by
Mercier, bust right, rev open book with caduceus and mirror, 31mm (Br 266; Feu 10764). Contemporary
striking, extremely fine. £70-90
3354 Napoleon I (1804-1814, 1815), The Légion d’Honneur, Silver Medal (1804), by B Andrieu and L Jaley,
laureate head right, rev the medal, AUSPICE NEAPOLEONE GALLIA RENOVATA HONNEUR ET PATRIE,
41mm (Br 310; Julius 1239; d’E 1013). Nearly extremely fine, dark tone. £200-250
3355 Napoleon I (1804-1814, 1815), Camp de Boulogne, Silver Medal, 1804, by R V Jeuffroy and L Jaley for
Denon, Napoleon enthroned distributes medals, rev plan of the encampment, SERMENT DE L’ARMEE
D’ ANGLETERRE A L'EMPEREUR NAPOLEON, 41mm (Br 318; Julius 1247). Choice extremely fine. £250-300
3356 Napoleon I (1804-1814, 1815), The Battle of Borodino - the Battle for Moscow, Silver Medal, 1812, by
B Andrieu and R V Jeuffroy for Denon, laureate bust right, rev hussar charges down enemy grenadiers,
BATAILLE DE LA MOSKOWA, 40.5mm (Br 1162; Julius 2528; d’E 1370). Extremely fine. £250-300
Seley
S507,
3358
3359
3360
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1804-1814, 1815), Set of Bronze Medals (20), produced by
Dominique Vivant Denon, with obverses by Andrieu and Droz, and reverses by Andrieu, Brenet,
Galle, Jaley and Jeuffroy, including: Breaking camp at Boulogne and crossing the Rhine, 1805 (Br 430; J
1407); Napoleon’s address to the army on the bridge over the Lech, 1805 (Br 432; J 1411); Capitulation
of Ulm and Memmingen, 1805 (Br 433; J 1414); Entry of Marshal Ney into Innsbruck, 1805 (Br 442; J
1435); Capture of Vienna and Pressburg, 1805 (Br 443; J 1439); Meeting of Napoleon and Francis II at
Urschutz, 1805 (Br 452; J 1456); Peace of Pressburg, 1805 (Br 455; J 1463); Return of Venice to Italy, 1805
(Br 460; J 1472); Te Deum in St Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna, 1805 (Br 461; J 1476); Conquest of Istria,
1806 (Br 512; J 1547); Conquest of Dalmatia, 1806 (Br 513; J 1547); Conquest of Naples, 1806 (Br 516; J
1557); Marriage of the Prince of Baden, 1806 (Br 522; J 1566); Confederation of the Rhine, 1806 (Br 534;
J 1587); Battle of Jena, 1806 (Br 537; J 1594); Battle of Jena, 1806 (Br 538; J 1596); Entry into Berlin, 1806
(Br 546; J 1608); Capitulation of four Prussian fortresses, 1806 (Br 548; J 1616); L’Arc de Triomphe de
Carrousel, 1806 (Br 557; J 1631); Battle of Moscow, 1812 (Br 1162; J 2528); each 40mm, presented in a
rare, bespoke, 19" Century, cylindrical, red leather case, the lid embossed with the arms of Napoleon,
the interior green velvet. The medals generally extremely fine, the case missing one end of the lid, highly
unusual and rare to find such medals in this contemporary case. (20) £2000-2500
Louis XVIII (1755-1814-1814-1724), uniface Portrait Medal in Berlin Iron, perhaps by Leonard Posch,
uniformed bust left, 91mm. As made, nearly extremely fine. £70-90
Napoleon, His Body Returned to France, Copper Medal, 1840, by Depaulis, laureate head of the dead
Emperor rests on a pillow, rev the catafalque on board the paddle steamer La Dorade 3 at Rouen,
passes beneath a bridge draped with flags, SAR LE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE COMMANDANT DE
L'EXPEDITION, 63mm (Br 1980; d’E 1687). A period striking with ‘prow’ poincon, extremely fine, edge bruise
at 3 o'clock on the reverse, scarce. £150-200
Francois d’Orléans, Prince de Joinville (1818-1900), third son of Louis Philippe, served as an admiral in the French navy.
France / Poland, The Massacre of the Poles in Galacia, small Bronze Medal, 1846, by David d’Angers,
Liberty head to right, between quill and bayonet, rev rope over gallows, MASSACRES DE GALLICIE -
METTERNICH BREINDT ..., 40.5mm. Much as made, good very fine. £60-80
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3361 Acclimatisation Society, Bronze Medal, 1880, by Alphee Dubois, seated female figure amongst various
animals, rev engraved inscription within wreath, A MR H S DITTEN CRUSTACES 1880, 50mm.
Extremely fine. £60-80
The Acclimatisation Society was founded in 1854 by the naturalist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) in order to enrich
the fauna of a region, with the introduction of plants and animals to the European colonies in the Americas and Australasia.
Germany
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3362 Friedrich Hagenauer, Augsburg, Sebastians Ligsalcz, in his 44" year, 1527, uniface cast Bronze Medal,
bust right (Habich I, 465); Ursula Ligsalcz, in her 28" year, uniface cast Bronze Medal, bust left
(Habich I, 466). Good very fine, late casts. (2) £150-200
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3363 Anna Rechlinger von Haldenberg (wife of Friedrichs von Zollern), cast Bronze Medal, 1529, by
Friedrich Hagenauer (born 1490-1500, died after 1546), bust to left, hair tied up and wearing wide-
rimmed hat, ANNA RECHLINGER VIRGO - AVGVSTANA ANNO ETATIS SVE XXII, signed H, rev family
arms in shield, ANNO SALVTIS MDXXIX, 63.5mm (Habich 533). An old and perhaps contemporary cast,
very fine, rare. £250-350
3364
3365
3366
3367
3368
Ambrosius Blarer (1492-1564), reformist, cast Lead Medal, bust right, rev legend in seven lines, 37mm.
Very fine. £30-50
Wilhelm Léffelholz von Kolnberg (1501-1554), cast Silver Medal, 1541, by Mathes Gebel (c.1500-1574),
bust right, rev VNERSVCHT VNERFARN ANNO MDXXXxXI, shield, cuirass, helmet and crest, 37mm
(Habich I, 2, 1191; Kress Coll 601). A very fine later cast. ‘a PAD EAL.)
Saxony, Johann Friedrich II (1554-1566), cast Lead Medal, crowned bust, almost facing, rev the arms of
Saxony, ALLE IN EVANGELIVM IST ONE VERLVST, 50mm (Mers 2924; Schnee 1599). Very fine, perhaps
19" century. £60-80
3367 3368
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Oval Uniface Lead Plaquettes (3), Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, 46mm x 36mm; The Virgin
Mary seated with angels, 45mm x 36mm, both fair, with 19" century inventory numbers on the reverse;
Heaven and Hell, the Father Son and Holy Spirit in majesty above sinners burning in the flames of
hell, 63mm x 51mm, good very fine with paper backing. (3) £80-120
Germany or Spain, Bronze Plaquette, unsigned, a saint standing facing, behind him flames and the
forepart of a boar, external wreath surmounted by a winged cherubin, 90mm x 56mm, cast in two parts
suggesting it may be part of a series, perhaps 18" century. Very fine. £120-150
3369 Brandenburg-Prussia, Georg Wilhelm, Truce in Stuhmsdorf, following the Peace Treaty of 1635, Gilt
Metal striking of the reverse of a medal, 1639, by Sebastian Dadler, Peace seated before a coastal
panorama, TALIS EGO AUREOLAM TRANQVILLA BORUSSIA PACEM RARO DIVORUM MUNERE
NACTA COLOR, 73mm (Brock 187). Very fine or nearly so. £120-150
3370 Baron Philipp Freiherr von Stosch (1691-1757), antiquarian, Copper Medal, 1727, by F J Marteau, bare
head to right, rev meeting of Diogenes and Alexander the Great, the former in his barrel, a dog on top
and an owl behind, 40.5mm (Wurzb 8584). Early die flaw on reverse, extremely fine, scarce. £80-120
SEU Prussia, Frederick II, the Great (1712-1740-1786), Accession 1740, Copper Medal, by Jean Dassier,
armoured bust three-quarters left, rev eagle soars above a landscape, REX NATURA, 54.5mm (Olding
511; Eisler I, 252; Julius 333). Good very fine. £150-200
3372 Prussia, Wilhelm I (1797-1861-1888), Silver Agricultural Award Medal, by A Mertens for Loos, head
right, rev legend within wreath of many plants, 50.5mm, 56.982, mint state; Modern Medal of Goya
(1964), from a series of painters, by the Staatliche Miinze, Karlsruhe, 49.5mm, 69.73g, numbered 709,
extremely fine. (2) £100-150
3575
3374
3375
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Brandenburg-Prussia, Princess Victoria, Princess Royal, Queen of Prussia and German Empress, later
known as the Empress Freidrich (1840-1901), massive Bronze Medal, c.1888, by Waldemar Uhlmann
and Loos, elegant portrait left, seen partly from behind, VICTORIA IMP* REG%, rev crown against draped
mantle and over scrolled V monogram, 166mm. A wonderfully sculptured portrait, good very fine with
dark patination. £200-300
The medal seems to date from her accession as Empress in March 1888.
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First World War, large uniface Iron Medal, by Ludwig Gies (1887-1966), America’s Contribution to the
War, 1914-1917, a craft in the form of a fantastic monster, laden with guns and armaments, spewing out
money and wearing an ‘Uncle Sam’ top hat, sails before the Manhattan skyline, 99mm (Ernsting 161;
Frankenhuis 1320; BM Cards, Set 40, 15). Extremely fine and extremely rare. £2000-2500
During the Great War, Ludwig Gies worked in a munitions factory in Munich and whilst he completed many differing medals
ue plaquettes, they were in extremely limited editions. All are now very rare in commerce. This piece, which mocks America’s
supposed neutrality during the years before they joined the war, is probably the best known.
First World War, cast oval Iron Plaquette, by Ludwig Gies, survivors are rescued from the sea and
pulled into a crowded lifeboat, 84mm x 51mm (Jones, Dance of Death, 26). Extremely fine. £200-300
3376
Soa?
3378
D379
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Theodor von Gosen (1873-1943), sculptor and medallist, First World War, The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, 1914, large cast Bronze Medals (4), each depicting one of the four horsemen, Destruction,
War, Death, Famine, with images of the human race in turmoil below and exergual date, rev German
text recounting the vision of St John, 98mm. Extremely fine and extremely rare. (4) £2000-2500
The Medals of Karl Goetz
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Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the Start of Submarine Warfare, Bronze Medal, 1915, by Karl Goetz,
bust three-quarters left, rev Neptune seated on the turret of a submarine, GOTT STRAFE ENGLAND...
(May God punish England), 81mm (Kienast 155). Extremely fine. £150-200
The medal commemorates the German government's first steps towards adopting a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare,
with a declaration of 4 February 1915, which warned neutral shipping to stay away from the waters surrounding Britain and
Ireland from 18 February 1915 and onwards.
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American Neutrality, cast Bronze Medal, by Karl Goetz, facing bust of Woodrow Wilson, ... LIBERTY
NEVTRALITY HVMANITY, rev Uncle Sam seated with weapons of war, 57mm (Kienast 149). Extremely
fine. £80-120
Germany, Married in War, cast Bronze Marriage Medal, 1914, by Karl Goetz, with space for inscription,
un-named, 57mm (Kienast 152). Very fine. £40-60
3380 3381
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3380 To Those Born During the War, cast Bronze Medal, baby laid down in German soldier’s helmet, rev
small tree growing in rocky soil, 57mm (Kienast 153). About extremely fine. £70-90
3381 The Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915, Bronze Medal, by Karl Goetz, with corrected date, figures queue
for tickets being sold by Death, rev the ship sinks, armaments, planes and cars topple into the waters,
KEINE BANN WARE! 7 MAI 1915 (Kienast 156). Extremely fine. £200-250
3382 3383
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3382 General Cadorna, cast Bronze Medal, the general with umberella right, rev Sysiphus and the rock,
57mm (Kienast 171). Extremely fine. E 100-150
The medal mocks the general’s statement that his losses at the Isonzo River were due to bad weather.
3383 Peace with the Ukraine, 1918, cast Bronze Medal, by Karl Goetz, a tree connected by a banner to a
sword buried in the ground, radiant sun at left, BROT (bread) across, rev eagle with fledgling on sheaf
of wheat, 57mm (Kienast 205). Extremely fine. £80-120
Greece
3384 George I (1845-1863-1913) and Queen Olga (Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia) (1851-
1926), the Birth of Crown Prince Constantine, Copper Medal, 1868, by J J Barre, conjoined busts right,
rev Royal arms and legend within open wreath, 51mm (cf Spink 5, 17 May 1979, lot 382, silver). Choice
extremely fine, scarce. £250-300
3385
3386
3387
3388
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George I (1845-1863-1913), Society of Friends of Education, Athens, Golden Jubilee, 1836-1886, Copper
Medal, by Alois Borsch, Munich, Athena seated to left holding wreath, her owl behind her, and distant
radiant Acropolis, rev legend within wreath, 50mm. Extremely fine. £80-120
George I (1845-1863-1913), Society of Friends of Education, Athens, Golden Jubilee, 1836-1886, Copper
Medals (2), by Alois Borsch, Munich, Athena seated to left holding wreath, her owl behind her, and
distant radiant Acropolis, rev legend within wreath, 50mm. First extremely fine or virtually so, the second
very fine. (2) £120-150
George I (1845-1863-1913), The Bank of Greece, 60" Anniversary, 1841-1901, Medals (2), Silver and
Bronze, 1902, conjoined busts of the first four Presidents of the Bank, Stavaros, Renieris, Kalligas and
Streit, rev facade of the Bank, radiant sky from Royal arms, 54mm. Silver very fine but the last numeral
of the dates amateurishly altered, the bronze nearly very fine, obverse stained. (2) £80-120
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George I (1845-1863-1913), International Exhibition, Athens, 1903, an important Presentation Medal
to the several times Prime Minister and President of Greece, Alexander Zaimis, Gilt-bronze Medal,
by Hond, Paris, Athena enthroned before a distant Acropolis, figures of Art, Learning, Trade and
Industry to either side, rev olive spray, named in tablet (AAEZ ZAIMH® [Alexander Zaimis]), 60mm.
An important association item, good very fine, some verdigris spots on obverse. £150-250
Alexander Zaimis (1855-1936), Greek statesman, Director of the National Bank of Greece in 1896 and from 1914 to 1920; Prime
Minister 1897-1899, 1901-1902, 1915-1917 (with interruptions) and 1926-1928; President of Greece 1929-1935. He helped with the
restoration of the monarchy. Zaimis died in exile at Vienna.
3389
3390
3391
3392
George I (1845-1863-1913), International Exhibition, Athens, 1903, Gilt-bronze Medal, by Hond, Paris,
Athena enthroned before a distant Acropolis, figures of Art, Learning, Trade and Industry to either
side, rev olive spray, named in tablet (A Z TATPIKIOZ / KAI ='[A Z Gatrikios & Co]), 60mm. Very fine,
gilding faded. £80-120
Apostolos Psaltof (1862-1923), Surgeon at Smyrna, Bronze Tribute Medal, 1911, by P Renieris, from his
fellow surgeons, friends and armirers, for 25 years service at the Greek Hospital of St Charalambos,
Smyrna, bust left, rev the internal courtyard of the hospital, 71mm. Extremely fine and rare. | £80-120
At the time that Psaltof joined the hospital, he also founded the Apollo Sporting Club of Smyrna. During World War I the
hospital was occupied by the Germans and the Ottoman Red Crescent. Later, when Smyrna was captured by the Greeks (1919-
1922), it became the First Military Hospital. However, in August 1922, the hospital was completely burned down by the massive
fire of Smyrna. As a gesture, the key of the hospital, all that remained, was presented to Apostolos Psaltof, who was by then the
General Governor of Chios. The key is now kept by the association “Union of Smyrniots” (Enosi Smyrnaion) in Athens.
Captain Frank Abney Hastings (1794-1824), Naval Officer and Philhellene, centenary of his death,
Bronze Medals (3), 1928, uniformed bust left, rev legend and sunset over sea, 41mm. One mint state, the
others nearly so. (3) £80-120
Hastings was wounded in an attack on Aitoliko, 25 May 1828, and died at Zante on 1 June.
Emmanouil Tsouderos (1882-1956), Governor of the Central Bank of Greece, Bronze Medals (2), 1938,
on the inauguration of the Bank’s new building, bust left, rev the Bank’s portico and three double
doors, 60mm. First extremely fine, the second very fine. (2) £80-120
Emmanouil Tsouderos was briefly Prime Minister in 1941, and then Prime Minister of the Government in exile, 1941-1944,
Tsuderos was appointed the first vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Greece and in 1931, Governor.
3393
3394
BoID
3396
India
Charles, Marquis Cornwallis (1738-1805), the Defeat of Sultan Tipoo [Tipu], Silver Medal, 1793 (in
error for 1792), by C H Kiichler, uniformed bust of Cornwallis left, rev Cornwallis receives the sons
of Sultan Tipoo as hostages, FAS SIT PARCERE HOSTI, SULTAN TIPPOO DEVICTO OBSIDES RECIPIT
MDCCXCI, 48mm (BHM 363; Eimer 845; Pudd 792.1.2; Pollard 5). Extremely fine with a lovely light tone,
scarce in silver. ~ £400-600
Charles, Marquis Cornwallis (1738-1805), the Defeat of Sultan Tipoo [Tipu], Copper Medal, 1792
(corrected date), by C H Kiichler, uniformed bust of Cornwallis left, rev Cornwallis receives the sons
of Sultan Tipoo as hostages, FAS SIT PARCERE HOSTI, SULTAN TIPPOO DEVICTO OBSIDES RECIPIT
MDCCXCIL, 48mm (BHM 363; Eimer 845; Pudd 792.1.2; Pollard 5). Good extremely fine. £250-300
D395 3e96
Major General Claude Martin (1735-1800), East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Copper “Medallic
Rupee” or Token, undated (1796), by Conrad Kichler for the Soho Mint, bust of Martin left, LABORE
ET CONSTANTIA - CLM below, rev legend in Urdu, 25mm (Pudd 796.1.1; BHM 424B; Prid 399;
BDM III, 523). Only fine but rare. £60-80
Major General Claude Martin (1735-1800), East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Copper Medal,
AH1211 (1796), by A McKenzie, bust of Martin to right, LABORE ET CONSTANTIA, rev legend in Urdu
honouring Martin, 34mm (Pudd 796.1; Pr 400A; BHM 424). Good very fine. £80-120
8397
3398
3399
The Battle of Seringapatam, Silver Medal, 1799, a Calcutta Mint striking after C H Ktichler, the British
Lion attacks the Indian Tiger, rev ina wide open landscape, a panorama of the battle, 46.5mm, original
(Calcutta) suspension loop (BBM [2006] 27; cf Pollard, NC 1970, 20). A little buffed, nearly extremely
fine. £200-300
Whilst 850 Soho Mint silver medals were awarded to the captains and subalterns, a further 2786 Calcutta Mint pieces were
given to Indian soldiers of the Bengal Presidency present at Seringapatam. The Calcutta medals lack the fine detail of Kiichler’s
pieces. It is a little smaller, a die flaw runs from above the A of MAY in the exergue, through the Y and on to the edge, whilst on
the reverse the is no midday sun.
Marquis of Hastings (1754-1826), Governor-General of Bengal, Victories in India, Copper Medal, 1818,
by W Wyon and Mudie, bare head left, rev Victory in chariot drawn by winged lions, PINDAREE &
MAHRATTA CONFEDERACY DEFEATED, 41mm (Pudd 818.1; BHM 974; Eimer 1108). Choice extremely
fine. E120=150
France, Major General Claude Martin (1735-1800), La Martiniére, Ecole des Sciences et Arts Industriels
de ia Fieger 1829, Silver Prize Medal, awarded 1855, by J Dantzell, bust of Claude Martin right
rev legend around wreath, in which named (Coron F 1% D™ 3¢ Prix Pers ve), 50mm, 64.95¢ (cf Budd
836.3; BDM VII/204). Scuffed, about very fine, rare. : seuies
3400 The Coorg Rebellion, Honourable East India Company’s Silver Medal, 1837, Calcutta Mint, soldier with
3401
3402
Kodagu and musket, rev crossed Kodagu and Kannada, 50mm. Later issue, pierced and with suspension
ring, very fine. £250-300
Dr James Burnes, Prize Medal of the Grant Medical College, specimen striking in White Metal, 1849,
by B Wyon, head of Burnes left, rev arms with acanthus leaf decoration, 46mm (Pudd 849.2.2, not
listed in white metal). Of Masonic interest, choice extremely fine and very rare. £180-220
ex Baldwin’s Auction 57, 23 September 2008, lot 794
Sir James Burnes (died 1862), an East India Company medical officer, who had arrived in India in 1821, was instrumental in the
formal establishment of Freemasonary in India, including, in 1843, the Rising Star Lodge of Western India - a lodge for “Native
Gentlemen”. The Lodge’s “Founders Medal” bears Burnes’s name and also his portrait. The Grant Medical College was funded,
as the medal states, by the Masonic brethren of Bombay.
John McLennan, Silver Prize Medal of the Grant Medical College, instituted 1855, by B Wyon, awarded
1928-1929, “MM Pupil L T Lushington”, bust of McLennan left, rev facade of Grant Medical College,
named in edge, 45mm, scrolled “Mutiny” type swivel suspender, in Bombay Mint case of issue
(Pudd 894.2.2). Nearly extremely fine with light but spotted tone and obverse edge bruise. £80-120
In 1826 John McLennan, a surgeon, was the superintendent of the Indian (native) medical school, Azad Maidan before moving
to the Grant Medical College. The Lushington family served in India for several generations (see following lot).
3403
3404
3405
Madras Exhibition, Copper Medal “For Merit”, 1855, by B Wyon, large laureate head of Victoria to left,
rev wreath and legend, impressed naming on edge, “T D Lushington Esq 1855”, 51.5mm, in case of
issue (Pudd 855.2). Choice, virtually as struck. £150-200
T D Lushington was from a family which served in India for several generations (see previous lot), he in the Civil Service. His
death was reported “Off Galle” on 17" June 1858, aged 45yrs”. The maroon leather case by “Hancock 39 Bruton Street, Jeweller
and Silversmith to the Sovereigns of Europe”, impressed in gilt on the lid “Madras Exhibition Medal 1855”. The following year
Hancock’s received the warrant to make the Victoria Cross, which they hold to this day.
The Sepoy Mutinies, Defenders of the Indian Empire, Copper Medal, 1857, by Messrs Pinches, standing
winged figure of Justice, her foot on a dead tiger, an Indian captive kneels behind, rev legend within and
around wreath, DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE DEFENDERS OF OUR INDIAN EMPIRE - DURING THE SEPOY
MUTINIES, 63mm (Pudd 857.1; BHM 2601; Eimer 1515). Good extremely fine, scarce. £400-500
Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Scottish born statesman and historian, Governor of Bombay,
1819-1827, Silver Medal of the Elphinstone Institute, Aberdeen [1860], by H Weighall, bewhiskered
bust left, rev semi-draped Indian student, reads book on which shines a shaft of light, 51.5mm
(Pudd 860.5). A few minor marks but extremely fine, rare and toned. £120-150
Elphinstone opened several educational institutions in Bombay which were accessible to the Indian population.
3406
3407
3408
3409
The Rifle Association of Northern India, Silver Award Medal, 1863, unsigned, tiger walking left in
jungle, rev legend around wreath, edge impressed (Won by Serg' C Bolton, 76" Reg, at Bangalore
Rifle Meeting 1874), 55mm (Pudd 960.3). Very fine and toned, obverse rim bruised and a few minor
surface marks. £180-220
ex DNW auction, 10 December 2003, lot 1495
The date ‘1873’ appears engraved between the top ends of the wreath.
North-West Provinces Provincial Exhibition, Lieutenant-General Drummond's Silver Medal of Honor,
1867, by W Wyon, diademed bust of Queen Victoria to left, rev legends within and around wreath,
edge named, BOMBADIER HATMAN RA, 43mm, scrolled “Mutiny” type swivel suspender
(Pudd 867.1). Extremely fine with light tone. £180-220
Sir John Lawrence, Bt (1811-1879), Statesman and Viceroy of India, 1864-1869, Copper Memorial Medal,
1882, by T Woolner and J Moore, struck in the Calcutta Mint, bare head left in high relief, rev Star of
India, 51mm (BHM 3121; Pudd 882.2; BDM VIII, 290). Extremely fine. £70-90
Victoria, The Calcutta Exhibition, 1883-1884, Copper Medal, by JS & AB Wyon, crowned bust left, rev
Britannia stands next to the seated figure of India, greet figures from the Empire, named on edge to
“Standish Lee Esq Officer in Charge, Mysore Court”, 76.5mm (Pudd 883.2.1). Very fine. £100-150
Standish Lee had previously served as Superintending Engineer (Sanitary Works) of the Mysore Government.
3410 Thomason College of Civil Engineering, Roorkee, Silver Prize Medal, Calcutta Mint, awarded 1895
(Sergt J Taylor, Upper Subordinate Class, for Surveying), British Lion rests on inscribed plinth within
open wreath, PRIZE above, rev inscription within open wreath, 55mm, 90.86g (Pudd 948.38.9). Extremely
fine, rare. £150-200
The College of Civil Engineering, Roorkee, was officially established in 1847, and Thomason’s name added in 1854 to honour its
founder, Sir James Thomason, Lieutenant Governor (1843-1853). Initially, the engineers’ class was for Europeans only and the
upper subordinate class for Europeans and Indians. The lower subordinate class was for Indians only.
3411
3411. The Oude & Rohilcund [Oudh & Rohilkhand] Railway, Gold “Free Travel” Pass, c.1885, un-named,
elephant stands before a palm, in Garter around, OUDE & ROHILCUND RAILWAY COMPY, rev plain
Garter, FREE PASS in centre, 22.35mm, 4.60g. Pierced with ring for suspension, very fine. £150-200
The Oude Railway Company was incorporated in England by Act of Parliament in 1858, with headquarters at Lucknow it ran
to Kanpur (Cawnpore).
3412 The Bengal and North-Western Railway, Silver “Free First Class” Pass, c.1885, un-named but engraved
“Agent O & R Railway”, Star of India, rev legends, 22.5mm. Pierced with ring for suspension, very
fine. £80-120
The 17 mile first section of the metre gauge Bengal and North-Western Railway from Mankapur to Gonda opened in 1884 and
the 219 mile section from Sonepur to Mankapur opened the following year.
3413 Bahawalpur, Mohammed Bahawal Khan V (1883-1899-1907), the “Bahawal Sadiq Medal”, on the birth
of his son and heir, Sadiq Muhammad Khan, Silver Medal, 1904, turbaned bust three-quarters left, rev
legend in nine lines, 32.5mm, suspension loop and ring (Pudd -). Very fine. £50-80
3414
3415
3416
3417
3418
3414
Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition, Bombay, Copper Medal, 1904, Indian mother in sari holds
child, rev central map of India, eight topical vignettes around, 50.5mm (Pudd 904.1). Very fine. £50-70
The British India Corporation, Silver Jubilee 1945, Prize Presentation Medal, named to Ram Sahai, Star
of India above Corporation arms, rev legend, 51mm, 60.47g (Pudd 945. 1). Some scuffs and bruises, about
very fine. £80-120
ex DNW auction, 10 December 2003, lot 1653
The Corporation was founded by the Sir Alexander MacRobert and combined and amalgamated a number of textile and related
companies.
National Refinery, Bombay, Silver Medal, the Goddess Lakshmi standing facing, rev decorative border
of elephants and lotus flowers around, Sri [holy], 52mm x 37mm, in original fitted red case, issued by
the refinery at 97 Tardeo Road. Attractively toned, extremely fine. £50-70
Iran
Shams al-Ma’ali Qabus bin Wushmagir (ruled 367 and 403h; 978-1012 AD), Bronze Medal, mid-20"
Century, turbaned bust left, rev the mausoleum and the tower of Gunbad-i Qabus, 63mm, in case of
issue. Extremely fine, scarce. 70-90
Qabus bin Wushmagir was the the Ziyarid ruler of Gurgan and Tabaristan in medieval Iran. The reverse depicts the decagonal
‘skyscraper’ tomb of Qabus bin Wushmagir, built during his lifetime and now a World Heritage site. It stood in lonely isolation
until the late Shah of Iran built a platform to afford visitors a more comfortable view of it.
Italy
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Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and Fano (1417-1432-1468), Bronze Medal, by
Matteo di Andrea de’ Pasti (active from 1441; d.1467/8), bust of Sigismondo left, wearing cuirass
and surcoat, SIGISMONDVS PANDVLFVS DE MALATESTIS S RO ECLESIE C GENERALIS, rev view of the
Castle of Rimini, CATELLVM SISMONDVM ARIMINENSE M GCC Kivi comin (HiullkCorgis, 174; Kress
60; Pollard 27; Pollard Bargello 1/42; V&T Bargello 1/68; Borner 63). A good early cast, very fine with
pleasant brown patination. £400-600
3419
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School of Emelia, Roberto da Sanseverino, Condotiere (1418-1488), cast Bronze Medal, bust right, in
cap, ROBERTVS DE SANCTO SEVERINO RAGONENSIS ITALIAE CAPIT GENERAL, rev Victory with
laurel wreath, BELLO ET PACI, 91mm (Arm II, 61/12). A very fine cast taken from a pierced original, pierced
at the top and with light brown patina. £350-450
ex The Michael Hall Collection
3420
Isotta Degli Atti (1432/3-1474), mistress (1446) then wife (1456) of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta,
cast Bronze Medal, by Matteo di Andrea de’ Pasti (active from 1441; died 1467/8), bust right, hair
raised in sophisticated style over high frame with jewelled crossed band, falling in twin conical tails
D ISOTTAE ARIMINENSI, rev the Malatesta elephant right, in meadow, 82mm (Arm I, 21/19; Kress 63;
Pollard 33). A very fine contemporary cast, neatly pierced, with brown patina. £2500-3000
ex The Michael Hall Collection
3421
3422
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Pelligrino Prisciani (c.1435-1518), Counsellor to Duke Borso and Ercole I, and Court Astrologer
to the Este family, cast Bronze Medal, 1473, by Sperandio da Mantova (c.1425-1504), bust left
wearing banded cap and gown, PRISCIANVS FERRARIENSIS EQVESTR DECORATVS AVRO DVCIBVS
SVIS ACMERCVRIO GRATISSIMVS, and across, SVPER/ET - GRAT/IMIS, rev Prisciani as the new
Prometheus (the giver of light), stands on large bird of prey, holding a long arrow and the flame of
inspiration, SPERANDRVS MANTVANVS DEDIT ANNO LEGIS GRATIAE MCCCCLXXIII INPERFECTO,
93.5mm (Hill, Corpus 374; Arm I, 72, 35; Pollard [2007] 88; Kress 121; Pollard, Bargello 104). An
early and probably contemporary cast, very fine, rare. £400-600
An indentation by the R of PRISCIANVS, suggests an attempted piercing. Prisciani was known as a multifaceted humanist.
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Nicolaus Schlifer, German musician, cast Bronze Medal, 1457, by Giovanni Boldt (c.1454 - before
(477) oust left, NICOLAVS SCHIFER GERMANVS VIR MODESTVS ALTER Q ORPPEHEVS, rev Apollo,
part-draped in mantle, stands with lyre, MCCCCLVII OPVS IOANIS BOLDV PICTORIS, 78mm (Hill,
Corpus 418; Arm 1) 37,6; Pollard [2007] 161; Kress 140; Nigel 1773;-ct Baldwin's Auction, Medals
of Musicians, 8 November 2008, lot 73). A well patinated cast, pierced by GM of GERMANVS, MH
monogram on edge, very fine. £800-1000
ex The Michael Hall Collection
3423
3424
3425
3426
3424
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3423
Baptism of Christ, square Bronze Plaquette, by Valerio Belli (c.1468-1546), The Baptism of Christ, John
the Baptist raises his hand over the central figure of Christ, four disciples to left, God the Father and
Holy Ghost above, 61mm x 61mm (Pope-Hennessy [Kress], 5, fig 351; Moliner 265; Bange 749). An old
aftercast, very fine, pierced. ED0-200
Cast from a rock crystal relief on the back of a casket belonging to Pope Clement VIL.
Giovanni Bernardi (1496-1553), Battle before a City Gate, oval Lead Plaquette, a defending army
advancing from the left to fight their enemy, below a river god reclines, 71mm x 63mm (Bange 1922,
919; Bode 1904, 1235; Cannata 55; Firenze, Bargello, 154; Maclagan p.70-71; Molinier 338; Naples
113; Rizzini 63; Venice, Museo Correr, 61; Sambon 130, pl. VHD). About extremely fine, with 19" century
acquisition and or auction lot numbers on the reverse. £100-150
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Jean de Lorraine (1498-1550), cast Bronze Medal, unsigned and undated, bust right, bearded, wearing
a biretta and a gown, IO CAR LOTHORINGIA, rev Prudence walks right, holding a mirror and a pair of
compasses, a dragon at her feet, 51.5mm (Attwood, vol 1, p.125). Pierced, sharp cast, very fine. £250-350
Jean de Lorraine was the youngest son of René II, Duke of Lorraine, and the brother of Antoine (who succeeded his father as
duke, 1508-1544). He was created a cardinal in 1518 and was archbishop of Lyon from 1537.
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Francois I (1494-1515-1547), King of France, cast Bronze Portrait Medal, 1537, obverse by Benvenuto
Cellini (1500-1571), laureate bust left, his sceptre before him, FRANCISCVS I FRANCORVM REX, rev by
Pier Paolo Galeotti (c.1520-1584), mythological scene, a couple seated on the shore, approached by a
female figure, an amour shooting a bow above, landscape beyond, FALLERIS. IAM. DATA. EST. FID (You
are deceived by the promise which is now given), 40mm (obverse Att 768-69; Arm I, 147, 3; Clifford 79;
reverse Arm III, 106B; Rizzini I, 201; Johnson / Martini 2005; Toderi/Vannel 1540). An early and probably
16” century cast, very fine. £350-500
bought Jan Lis
The reverse is taken from a portrait medal of Girolamo Calderini.
3427
3428
3429
3430
Gianfrancesco Trivulzio (1509-1573), cast Bronze Medal, in the manner of Leone Leoni (c.1509-1590)
IO FRAN TRI MAR VIG CO MVSO AC VAL REN ET STOSA D, cuirassed bust right, rev elegant image a
naked Fortune, her drapery billowing in the winds, ona dolphin in an nace d Saar as FVI
SVM ET ERO, 57mm (Att 146; Arm II, 302, 13; Kress 360a; Pollard 412; Scher 53). An aftercast, good very
fine. £200-250
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Francesco da Sangallo (1494-1576), cast Bronze Medal (1550), bearded bust left, FRANCESCO
DASANGALLO SCVLTORE ARCHITETTO, rev Elena Marsuppini, his wife, 96.5mm (Pollard 357/358).
A very fine aftercast with casting flaws and light patina, rarer than uniface exmples. £600-800
Isabella Rammi, wife of Francesco d’Este (died after 1572), uniface Bronze Medal 1556, by Pastorino
de’ Pastorini (1508-1592), bust right, hair up, tied with pearls, SABELLA RAM D EST MDLVI (Arm I,
195/43 obverse). A later cast with trace of acquisition number 19, very fine. £280-320
ex The Michael Hall Collection
The Emperor Vespasian (69-79), uniface cast Bronze Restitutional Portrait Medal, Paduan, 16°
/ 17 Century, laureate bust left, VESPASIAN AVG G, 81mm. Extremely fine with pleasant dark
patination. £100-150
Baldwin’s sold a similar medal of Flavia Domitilla, the Elder (died before 69), the wife of the Emperor Vespasian from The
Michael Hall Collection, 4 May 2010 (lot 217).
3431
3432
3433
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Clement IX (1600-1667-1669), Giulio Rospigliosi, Construction of the Corsini Chapel at St John
Lateran, Copper Medal, 1733 (Year 3), by Ottone Hamerani, bust of the Pope right, wearing tiara
and embroidered cope, hand raised in blessing, rev the interior of the chapel, extending to the dome,
SACELLO IN LATERAN BASIL- S ANDREAE CORSINIO ADIFICATO, 71.5mm (Lincoln 1783; Borner 1345).
Extremely fine, early signs of die breaks to the obverse and flaw on the reverse. £350-400
The work was carried out by the architect and mathematician Alessandro Maria Gaetano Galilei (1691-1737), whose name
written along the exergual line of the medal’s reverse.
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Clement IX (1600-1667-1669), Giulio Rospigliosi, the Restoration of the Ponte San Angelo, cast Bronze
Medal, 1669, by Charles Jean Francois Chéron (1635-1698), bust of the Pope right wearing camauro,
mozetta and stole, signed on truncation, CLEMENS IX PONT MAX AN IIL, rev view of the bridge, Fame
flying above, the river god of the Tiber reclining below, ALIO PONTE EXORNATO, 96mm, cast with
integral suspension loop (Bonanni II, 705,14; Weber 196; Linc 1281; Clifford 199; Donini, A, Ponti su
monete e medaglie, 148). Very fine and with dark patination. £400-600
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Clement IX (1600-1667-1669), Giulio Rospigliosi, cast Bronze Medal, 1669, by Gioacchino Francesco
Travani, bust left wearing camauro, mozetta and stole, AMPLIATA BASILICA LIBERIANA, rev facade
showing the Apse of Sta Maria Maggiore, as designed by Bernini, DILIGIT DOMINVS DECOREM
DOMVS GENTRICVS SV&, 75.5mm (Mol 102; Varriano 108a; Clifford 198; Weber 330). A sharp cast, good
very fine. £300-400
3434
3435
3436
3437
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Lorenzo Bellini (1643-1704), philosopher and anatomist, cast Bronze Portrait Medal, by Girolamo
Ticciati (1676-1745), bust left, LAVRENTIVS BELLINI, rev Bellini, supported by Philosophy and Anatomy,
approaches Apollo who crowns him, other figures around, legend on ribband, ANTEME NEMINI,
90mm (V&T 77; Lankheit 191). Extremely fine with “dusty” light brown patination, small piercing in top
border. £250-300
Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689, Queen 1632-1654), Bronze Medal, by Massimiliano Soldani,
bust right, hair tied with pearls, REGINA CHRISTINA, rev the sun in majesty, NEC FALSO NEC ALIENO
G D, 62mm (de Bildt XI, 48/ XV, 62; Hildebrand I, 309, 98; V&T 28, 60mm; Bargello 25a / 24¢).
Very fine. £120-150
Christina had arrived in Rome on the 19 December 1653. Soon active in the politics of the Vatican she strongly encouraged the
Christian war against the Turks, even donating her pension to the war treasury. Christina died 19 April 1689 in Rome and is
buried at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. See also the following five lots.
Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689, Queen 1632-1654), Bronze Medal, by Giovanni Battista
Guglielmada after Massimiliano Soldani, bust right, hair tied back, rev the sun in majesty, NEC FALSO
NEC ALIENO G D, 39.5mm. Good very fine. £80-120
Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689, Queen 1632-1654), Gilt-bronze Medal, by Giovanni Battista
Guglielmada after Massimiliano Soldani, laureate draped bust right, rev the Queen in Roman costume
is pulled up off the ground by a hand from heaven, a French cockerel flies away, A SOCIO DERELICTA
A DEO RESTITVTA SVETIA, 62.5mm (de Bildt LZ aie 7172; Hildebrand I, 306, 92b). The gilding original
but a little rubbed, more so on the obverse, good very fine and rare. £200-250
ex “Property of a Gentleman” collection [Sir Timothy Clifford], Spink / Christie’s auction, 21 May 1996, lot 249
3438
3439
3440
3441
Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689, Queen 1632-1654), Bronze Medal, by Giovanni Battista
Guglielmada, bust right wearing fur trimmed gown, hair tied with pearls, REGINA CHRISTINA,
rev lion before cornucopie leans on globe and rudder, FORTIS ET FELIX, in exergue, G D, 61mm
(Bargello 26a/26b). Nearly extremely fine. £150-200
Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689, Queen 1632-1654), large uniface Bronze Medal, by Gioacchino
Francesco Travani, bust right wearing laureate helmet with Sphynx finial, CHRISTINA ALEXANDRA,
93mm (de Bildt VIL, 28; Hildebrand I, 323, 127). Sharply cast, good very fine, an integral suspension loop all
but filed away, rare. £200-250
Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689, Queen 1632-1654), Bronze Medal, 1665, by Gioacchino
Francesco Travani, bust right wearing classical helmet, REGINA CHRISTINA, signed below truncation,
rev phoenix rises from the flames, MAKEAQX, 61.5mm (de Bildt VI, 26f; Hildebrand I, 311, 104).
Very fine with light patination. £150-200
Cosimo de Medici (1519-1574), cast Bronze Medal, 1561, by Domenico Poggini, bust right, rev
HETRVRIA PACATA, figure of Etruria standing between lion and wolf and twins, 40mm (Arm I, 250,12):
Deep old patina, fine/fair. £60-80
3442
3443
3444
Filippo Lauri (1623-1694), artist, cast Bronze Portrait Medal, by Charles Jean Francois Chéron (1635-
1698), unsigned and undated, draped bust right, PHIL LAVORVS ROMANVS PICTOR, rev the artist at
his easel, painting a multi-breasted nirid, ribband above with legend, AMVLAT ET SVPERAT, 54.5mm
(Johnson I, 247; V&T 2005, 1174). Very fine, pierced. £100-150
Baroque Medal reverse, scales with crossed sword and caduceus, CERTANT TERGEMINIS TOLLERE
HONORIBVS, 70mm. Extremely fine. £80-120
The design with the same legend (a quotation from Horace) is found ona smaller bronze medal, dated 1675, of Antonio Alvarez-
Osorio Davila y Toledo, Marqués de Velada y Astorga.
Giovanni Battista Gugliem da Camillo, Cardinal Massimo, cast Bronze Medal, 1678, by Giovanni
Battista Guglielmada, bust left in ecclesiastical robes and berretta, rev River God of the Tiber by pedestal,
astrological sign of LEO above, ASTRA [TENJET., 53mm (BDM VII, 165). Good very fine. £70-90
The medal commissioned by Antonio de Cavaleri, whose name is shown on the reverse.
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3445. +-Francesco Barbarigo (c.1380-1449), ambassador, cast restitutional Bronze Medal, believed to date
to the 17" Century, by Giovanni Francesco Neidinger, FRANCISCVS BARBADICVS ORATOR AD
REMPVBLICAM FLORENTINAM, bust right, IO(ANNES) FRAN(CISCVS) NEIDINGER, rev Barbarigo
addressing the Government of Florence, in exergue, ORATOR ET CONFOEDERATOR, 55.5mm (Voltolina
1251; Valcavi Barbarigo XIX). An old cast, about extremely fine and rare. £80-120
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3446 —_ Livio I Odescalchi (1652-1713), Duke of Bracciano, Sirmio and Ceri, Copper Medal, 1699, by Ferdinand
de Saint Urbain, bust right with long, flowing hair, rev palace and formal gardens at Lake Bracciano,
TVETVR ET ARCET, 60.5mm (Mirnik 12; Molinari 114; Clifford 264; HCz 4802; Mus Mazz II, 233,
pl 155). Surface a little stained, nearly extremely fine. ELOU- 200
Livio Odescalchi, a nephew of Pope Innocent XI, acquired the town of Ilok (Croatia) in the late 17" Century and the palace
he built there is still home to the Odescalchi collection. Clifford (Spink, 21 May 1996) wrote of the specimen in his collection,
“Undoubtedly the grandest medal commissioned by Odescalchi”.
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3447 Guido Grandi (1671-1742), mathematician and theologian, cast Bronze Medal, by Antonio Selvi
(1679-1753), bust right, D GVIDO GRANDVS ABBAS CAMALD MATHEM PIS VNIV, rev emblems of
learning, EYPHKA, 87.5mm (V&T 193). Neatly pierced, about extremely fine. £180-220
3448
3449
3450
3451
Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564), uniface cast Bronze Medal, by Antonio Selvi (1679-1753),
draped bust right showing embroidered doublet, MICHAEL ANGELVS BONAROTVS, signed AS below
truncation, 87.5mm (V&T 123; Eidlitz 170-171). Extremely fine with light patination. £400-600
The obverse of the medal can be found paired with two different reverses, allegorical figures of Painting, Sculpture and
Architecture or three interlinking wreaths.
Benedict XIV (1740-1758), Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, Memorial in the Vatican to Princess Maria
Clementina Sobieska, wife of James [III], the Old Pretender, 1743 (Year 3), by Ottone Hamerani, bust of
Pope right, rev the monument in the Vatican, 35mm (CNORP I, 221; Bartolotti E 743; Patrignani, pels),
Nearly extremely fine. £80-120
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Alessandro Ghivizzani, poet, cast Bronze Medal, 1750, by Antonio Selvi (1679-1753), bust right wearing
gown, ALEXAND GHIVIZZANI FLOR POETA EXTEMPOR LEPIDIS, rev bust of Ghivizzani on a pedestal,
Apollo and a seated Muse to either side, QVEM SVMES CELEBRARE, 87mm (V&T 215; Johnson 146).
Extremely fine. £180-220
Ghivizzani descendent of the more famous singer-composer-poet of the same name
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), sculptor, Completion of his tomb in the Basilica dei Frari, Venice, Bronze
Medal, 1827, by Antonio Fabris, bust right, rev the pyramidal tomb, EX CONLATIONE EVROPAE
VNIVERSAE, 52.5mm (Saracino 3; Medagliere Risorgimento 407), Bronze Tribute Medal, undated, by
Francesco Putinati, head right, rev AL SECOLO NONO, 34mm (Wiirz 1198); Theatro della Concordia,
Pordenone, Bronze Medal, 1830, by A Fabris, personification of the City, rev facade of the theatre,
34.5mm. Extremely fine or nearly so. (3) £80-100
The pyramidal tomb had been designed by Canova as a monument to Titian and was built by his students. The pyramid and
the statues that adorn it are said to demonstrate Canova’s involvement with Freemasonry.
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Antonio Canova (1757-1822), sculptor, his monument to Angelo Emo, Copper Medal, 1795, by
Francesco Corazzini, winged figures at the monument, one crowns a bust, the other writes Emos’s
name ona column, rev legend in nine lines below Venetian lion, ANTONIO CANOVAE VENETO ARTIBVS
ELEGANTIORIBVS MIRIFICE INSTRVCTO OB MONVMENTVM PVBLICVM ANGELO EMO..., 58.5mm
(Voltolina 1764; Seren 148; Johnson 1990, IL, 282). Extremely fine and very rare. EU2Z0=15G
Angelo Emo (1731-1792), was the last Grand Admiral of the Republic of Venice. The Senate decreed that Canova should be
responsible for the monument, for which he received a life pension. This medal was also commissioned by the Senate.
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Pius VII (1742-1800-1823), Barnaba Chiaramonti, The Restoration of the Colosseum, Copper Medal,
1806, by T Mercandetti, bust left wearing cap, cope and stole, rev facade of the Colosseum, AMPHIT
FLAVIVM REPARATVM, 68mm (Patrignani 45; Bartolotti 78; Weber 232). A splendid architectural medal,
the reverse struck from damaged die, edge knocks, otherwise extremely fine. £250-350
The Basilica of San Marco, Venice, Copper Medal, 1850, by J Wiener, facade showing the four domes
and the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of St Mark’s, rev interior perspective towards the altar, 59.5mm
(Hoy 65; Kamp 51). Extremely fine. £120-150
3455
3456
Pope Pius IX (1792-1846-1878), Mastai-Ferretti, The Proclamation of the Immaculate Conception, large
circular Gilt-metal Plaquette, 1854, by Antoine Vechte (1800-1868), made by the electrotype process,
the Virgin Mary stands nimbate, her hands crossed, around her angelic figures and cherubs, wide
border, inset with four vignettes, bust of the Pope below, 158mm, signed “A Vechte Ivt et fecit 1854”,
registration mark stamped on lower edge. Extremely fine and very rare. B1o0-200
Forrer (BDM), describes the medallion as “marvellously beautiful” and states that Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865)
noted that an example in gold was made for Hunt and Roskell. In 1854, with the Bull Ineffabilis, Pius IX had proclaimed the
dogma of the Immaculate Conception: ”... We declare, pronounce and define that the doctrine which asserts that the Blessed
Virgin Mary, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God, and in view of the
merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from every stain of original sin is a doctrine revealed by
God and, for this reason, must be firmly and constantly believed by all the faithful”.
After Valerio Belli, later casts of medals (2), Bronze, Solon rev temple facade; Lead, Aristeides, rev
seated female; Oval Lead Plaquettes after the antique (4), Lapiths and Centaurs(?), 53mm x 41mm;
Liberation of Iphigenia (?), 50mm x 41mm (Toderi 69); Hercules with Minerva and Venus, 48mm x
41mm (V&A A479-1910); Memento Mori, naked female figure by urn, NO ME OLVIDO EL RESEVIDO,
52mm x 41mm. Generally fair to very fine, the Plaquettes, produced before the electrotype process became the
norm, with 19" century inventory numbers on the reverse. (6) £180-220
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3458
3459
Allergorical Copper Plaquettes (6), 19" Century, made using the electrotype process, depicting the
personifications Arithmetica, Dialectica, Geometrica, Gramatica, Musica and Rhetorica, all as classical
style female figures, decorative backgrounds, all convex with mounting attachments on the reverse,
71mm x 43mm. Good very fine to extremely fine. (6) £180-220
Pope Gregory XIII, Lead Medal, 38mm (Linc 737; Roma 13); Queen Mary of England (1516-1553-1558)
and the future Philip I of Spain (1527-1556-1598), double-portrait Lead Medal, in the style of Jacques
Jonghelinck, 42mm (cf MI 72/18); Don Quijote(?), Bronze Medal, 46.5mm; Henri de la Tour, cast Oval
Lead Medal, bust right, rev SVMMAN EQVIT FRVSTRA I MALAL CESSIT, tower amidst a stormy sea;
Malatesta, Bronze, 30mm (Pollard [2007] 25); Peter Gyron, Viceroy of Sicily, Bronze Medal, 46mm. Fair
to fine, late casts. (6) £200-250
Japan
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Field Marshal Count Maresuka Noghi (1848-1912), octagonal Bronze Memorial Medal, 1912, alluding to
the Capture of Port Arthur (present-day Qingdao), by Hugo Taglang, facing bust, in uniform, rev lion on
rocky outcrop, looks out to sea, 69mm (BDM VI, 6-7, illustrated; Wurzb 6856). Extremely fine. £80-120
Port Arthur had been captured during the first Sino-Japanese War, 21 November 1894, by General Yamaji Motoharu when,
in a complete massacre, a reputed 60,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians were killed. After the capture of Kinchow Noghi
commanded one of the brigades sent to attack the seven immense forts surrounding Talien Bay and were then involved in the
final taking of Port Arthur.
Hugo Taglang (1874-1944), Austrian sculptor and medallist.
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3462
Mexico
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Charles IV (1748-1788-1808), Gilt-bronze Medal, 1796, by G A Gil, inauguration of the equestrian
statue of Charles IV, conjoined busts right of the King and Queen Maria Luisa of Parma, he laureate
in armour, rev the statue on its plinth with railings around, CAROLO IV PIO BENEE..., 59.5mm
(Grove C-267a; Fonr 6436). Very fine. £200-300
The statue (known as El Caballito) by Manuel Tolsa, had been commissioned by the new Viceroy, Miguel de la Grtia Talamanca,
and the plinth with a temporary statue on it was inaugurated in the the Plaza de la Constituci6n with large and well-attended
parties and bullfights on the 8 December 1796. It is now in the Plaza Manuel Tolsa.
Netherlands
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The Treaty of Fontainbleau, Silver Medal, 1785, by J Everts, the lion of Holland, armed, resting beside
the lily of France, the Austrian eagle mobbed by birds above, distant cityscape, DE LELY HEEFT DEN
KRYG ..., rev Peace flying above the lion of Holland, monuments in land and river-scape, VOLGENS
DEN MUNSTERSE ..., 44.5mm (Le Maistre 656; Julius 2482; vL suppl 626b; Pax 656). Extremely fine and
lightly toned, rare. £550-650
The Treaty of Fontainebleau was signed 8 November 1785 between The Holy Roman [Habsburg] Empire and the United
Provinces in which the latter maintained sovereignty over the Scheldt Estuary, reinforcing the tenets of the Treaty of Munster.
Russia
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Sviatoslav I, Igorevich (945-972), the Visit of [Saint] Olga to Greece, 955, large Copper Medal,
number 60 from the Historical Series, by T Ivanov and (reverse) I C Jaeger, struck during the
reign of Catherine II, armoured bust of Sviatoslav right, holding shield before him, rev Olga, with
three male attendants about to board a ship, 79mmm (Diakov 1727; Smirnov 122). Slightest of
edge bruises, extremely fine. £300-350
Olga (or Helga), born in about 890, was the wife of Prince Igor of Russia and after his death in 945 she was regent for their son.
In 957 (not 955 as on the medal) she visited Constantinople. She either then, or earlier, became a Christian though she did not
succeed in converting her son.
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3464
3465
3466
3463 3465
Peter the Great (1672-1682-1725), Copper Memorial Medal, 1725, by J A Dassier, bust right, rev figures
of Neptune and Bellona, city and ships beyond, 38mm (Diakov 63.12; Eisler 138). Almost extremely
fine. PA2Z0- 150
The reverse commemorates two of Peter‘s greatest accomplishments: the creation of the Baltic fleet and the construction of St Petersburg.
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Catherine II, the Great (1729-1762-1796), the Transportation of the Granite Monolith for the Equestrian
Statue of Peter I, the Great, Copper Medal, 1770, by J C G Jaeger, draped bust left, name above,
rev workers transporting the vast stone before many spectators, 65.5mm (Diakov 150.1[R']).
Choice extremely fine and rare in this grade. £350-450
The monolith was to support Falconet’s great equestrian Statue of Peter I in St Petersburg, which was unveiled in 1782. The
gigantic piece of grey granite, known as the “Thunder Rock,” was discovered in the Karelian forest and its slow but spectacular
transportation by land and sea in specially designed vessels to the beat of royal drummers, was considered a marvel of
engineering equal to the building of the pyramids.
Catherine H, The Great (1729-1762-1796), Copper Medal, for the “Series Numismatica”, 1826, by
J A Pingret and Durand, bust left, rev legend, 41.5mm (Diakov -; BDM I, 668 & IV, 560/561). Almost
extremely fine, numeral “5” inked on edge. £80-120
Forrer (BDM) records that Pingret also made the medal of Peter the Great for the Series
Count Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suworow (1729-1800), Victories against the French in Italy by the
Russian forces, Copper Medal, 1799, by C H Kiichler, struck at the Soho mint (Birmingham, England),
armoured bust right wearing fur mantle, ALEX SUWOROW PRINC ITAL COM RIMNIKS, rev Mars
standing, raising a seated Italia with his left hand, and trampling on the shield of a cowering French
soldier, ITALLZ LIBERATOR / MDCCXCIX, 49mm (Diakov 248; Pollard 17; Hennin 903; Julius 698;
BDM III, 242). Extremely fine. £400-600
3467
3468
3469
3467
Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov (1745-1813), Prince of Smolensk, rectangular papier maché snuff
box, perhaps workshop of A. Ek, with an engraved and coloured portrait of Kutuzov in uniform and
bemedalled, gilt scrolled border and edge design, red painted interior, 102mm x 73.5mm x 27.5mm,
first half of the 19" Century. ‘Crackled’ lacquer surface, in very good order. £250-300
Kutuzov had a long and distinguished military career, fighting in the Turkish Wars and elsewhere. However it is for his brilliant
leadership against Napoleon and his victory at Borodino that he is remembered, “the saviour of his homeland”.
Nicholas I (1796-1825-1855), Medallic Portrait, in white glass-paste, perhaps by James Tassie after a
medal by Heinrich Gube (1805-1848), bust right, signed on truncation, set on oval of black glass, 58mm
x 47.5mm. Extremely fine, small edge chip between 8 and 9 o'clock, extremely rare. £200-300
A very similar portrait can be found on a medal by Gube, struck by Loos in 1828, commemorating the Declaration of War on
Turkey (Diakov 470.1).
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Nicholas I (1796-1825-1855), University of Moscow, 100" Anniversary, large Copper Medal, 1855, by
V Alexeev and M Kuchkin, Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov and Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov present a
dedication book to the Empress Elizabeth I, rev crowned double-headed eagle, date below, 79.5mm
(Diakov 614.1; Smirnov 555). Nearly extremely fine and rare. £450-650
The university, which is the oldest in Russia, is now named as The Lomonosov Moscow State University after Mik
; : eae Se oe : or ae ppl ieted
Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), the scientist and writer. Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (1727-1797) was the first Russian Minister
of Education who played an active part in the founding of the university.
3470
3471
3472
3473
3470
Alexander I (1777-1801-1825), Portrait Medal, Gilt-metal Cliché, by André Galle (1761-1844), lareate
head to right, ALEXANDER I - IMP RUSSORUM, signed below truncation, GALLE FECIT, 67.5mm, in
glazed neo-classical bronze frame (Diakov -). Good very fine, extremely rare. £120-150
Perhaps made at the time of Alexander’s visit to the Hotel de La Monnaie, 25 May 1814
Alexander I (1777-1801-1825), French Fruitwood Snuff or Patch Box, c.1814, the lid inset with a glazed
and gilt cliché medal of Alexander, signed H on truncation, bust right wearing the uniform of the
Preobrezensky Regiment, legend around, ALEXANDRE 1°" EMPEREUR DE TOUTES LES RUSSIES - NE
LE 23 DECEMBRE 1777, box 80.5mm, medal 45.5mm._ The cliché extremely fine, a most attractive box in
excellent condition. £300-350
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Battle of Leipzig, Oval Silver Award Medal, 1813, four battle shields bearing the Arms of Russia,
Austria, Prussia and Sweden, date below, rev Radiant Pyramid with Hebrew legend above four line
German legend, “Our God is our Castle”, 30mm x 26mm. Loop is missing, polished on edge, otherwise
about extremely fine. £350-450
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (1831-1891), oval Black Basalt Portrait Medal, by Wedgwood,
c.1878, uniformed and bemedalled bust left, raised border around, rev stamped “WEDGWOOD”, 86mm.
x 68mm, manufactured suspension holes in top edge (R&S listed amongst post 1840 items). As made,
very rare. £400-600
The Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich was the third son and sixth child of Nicholas I. His career was in the military and he
commanded the Russian army of the Danube in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878 with the rank of Field Marshal. It seems
likely that the medal was made at that time.
3474
3475
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Nicholas II (1868-1918, Tsar 1894-1917) and Alexandra Feodorovna, Visit to France, Bronze Medal,
1896, by Jules Clément Chaplain, conjoined busts right, rev arms of Russia and Third Republic, legend
and wreath below, VISITE EN FRANCE ..., 70mm (Diakov 1212.1). Extremely fine. £100-150
Silver Triple Coin Holder, St Petersburg, late 19 Century, with separate sprung compartments to hold
silver 5-, 10-, and 15-Kopeks, the body engraved with floral designs, “84” kokoshnik mark, approx
19mm x 63mm. In good working order, rare. £120-150
Spain
3476
3477
Isabella II, Fantasy Pattern 4-Pesetas, 1894, struck in Silver, by John Pinches for Reginald Huth,
crowned and veiled bust left (in the style of Victoria’s old head coinage), rev lions and castles within
angles of ornate cross, milled edge (BDM II, 580, illustrated). Hairlines in the fields, otherwise extremely
fine and scarce. £300-400
only 100 pieces struck
Sweden
Gustavus II Adolphus (1611-1632), Battle of Breitenfeld, cast Silver Medal, 1631, by J Gentil, the
Emperor on horseback, rev MIT GOTT UND RITTERLICHE WAFFEN, crowned shields with smaller
trophies of arms, 47mm (Hild. 131/56). Good very fine. £150-200
The obverse image is strikingly similar to Johann Walter’s painting of the battle currently at the Musée historique de Strasbourg.
3478
3479
3480
3481
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Gustavus II Adolphus (1611-1632), uniface Iron Portrait Medal, c.1810, armoured bust right, in the
style of Sebastian Dadler, 96mm, made with suspension loop, the reverse stamped with his name.
Very fine, rare. £100-150
The manufacturing quality of this, and the medal of Carl X Gustav in the following lot, suggest a Swedish source, probably
Eskilstuna rather than the better finished Berlin iron medals by Posch and others. In 1650 Carl X Gustaf offered Reinhold
Rademacher the exclusive right to produce and export fine metal work, this was extended and grew over the years and
Eskilstuna became an important manufacturing centre for blacksmiths.
Carl X Gustav (1622-1654-1660), uniface Iron Portrait Medal, c.1810, armoured bust right, in the style
of Jean Parise, 88.5mm, made with suspension loop, the reverse stamped with his name. Very fine,
rare. £80-120
see note to previous lot
Switzerland
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Baptism of Princess Claudia, daughter of Henry II of France, cast Silver Patenpfennig, 1547, by Jakob
Stampfer, hand holding belt around which many shields, rev central cross supported by cherubs,
shields of seven cantons around, 69mm (Habich 868). Pierced, very fine, a secondary cast. £200-250
Louis le Fort, first Consul of Geneva, Copper Medal 1734, by J A Dassier, LUD LE FORT REIP GENEV
CONSUL PRIMAR ANN 1734 ABT 66, three-quarters facing bust left, rev Geneva sitting left, attended by
putti, DEI NUMINE, 54.5mm (Eisler II, 93, 1; Haller 1911; Leu SM 1702); André Hercules, Cardinal de
Fleury (1653-1743), statesman, Copper Medal, 1736, by J Dassier, ANDR HERCULES CARDINALIS DE
FLEURY, facing bust, rev serpents entwined around club of Hercules, attributes of Arts Commerce and
Science, HIS PACEM REDDIT ARMIS above, 54.5mm (Eisler II, 96, 6; Pax 1011; BDM 1/514). Extremely
ne
ee) £150-200
3482
3483
3484
3485
Uri, Silver Shooting Festival Medal, 1895, by F Homberg, William Tell stands with his son beside him,
rev shields of Switzerland and Canton Uri, 1307-1895, 50mm, in case of issue (Leu, Schweizer Medaillen
904; K 314; Wund 3427); Germany, Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, Prince Franz Edmund (1853-1910), Silver
Memorial Medal, 1910, by Lauer, 29mm; Prince Alfred (1825-1911), Bronze Memorial Medal, 1911, by
Lauer, both arms, rev legends, 29mm, in cases of issue. All mint state or virtually so. (3) £120-150
Turkey
Medals illustrative of both Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them
—
3483 3484
Malta, Jean de la Valette (1494-1557-1568), Termination of the Siege of Malta, Dutch Copper Medal or
Jeton, 1565, unsigned, Victory stands on war galley, MELITA LIBERATA, rev equestrian knight to left,
brandishes sword, TVRCA FVGATO, 28mm (Schembri 229/2; vL I, 69, 1; Feuardent III, 13731; MH 651).
Fair to fine, very rare. £80-120
Spanish Netherlands, Philip II (1527-1556-1598), Birth of the Infante Fernando (1572-1575) and the
Battle of Lepanto, Copper Jeton, 1572, Abundance with cornucopiz, stands with peacock and infant,
IAM NONA PROGENIES, rev galley filled with military and naval trophies, TVRCAE CLASSE DEVICTA,
29mm (Dugn 2560; vL I, 142, 2; MH 661; Wirz 1572). Fine. £80-120
These two subjects are more famously linked in an allegorical painting by Titian, now in the Prado.
France, Louis XIV (1638-1643-1715), The Defeat of the Tripoli Pirates, Bronze Medal, 1681, by ] Mauger,
older bust right, rev a pirate grovels at the feet of Victory, the harbour and town of Chios beyond,
DE PIRATIS TURCA SPECTANTE / AD INS CHIO, 41mm (Divo 190; MH 80). Extremely fine, light
patina. £150-200
An important victory by Admiral Duquesne who had chased the pirates into the harbour at Chios, blockaded them and a
Turkish squadron (sent to relieve them), and forced the release of all French slaves held on the ships and at Tripoli.
3486
3487
3488
3489
Poland, The Siege and Liberation of Vienna, Boxwood Medal or Draughtsman, 1683, by Johann Hohn,
a panoramic cityscape, two crowned eagles above, of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire, tear apart
the Turkish crescent moon, NEC LUNA DUABUS, 57mm, the depth thin at 5mm, dark boxwood border
with lighter interior (Himm -; cf Hirsch 26; cf HCz 2462). Very fine and rare. £150-200
The image is the reverse of a medal with, as its obverse, a high relief portrait of Johann II Sobieski (1674-1696). It would seem
to have originally been made as a draughtsman and subsequently cut in half, perhaps intended as a box lid.
Great Britain, George I (1660-1714-1727), The Treaty of Passarowitz, Silver Medal, 1718, by J Croker,
laureate bust right in armour, rev the King, below draped hangings, points at Morea on a library globe,
PACIS ARBITER, 45.5mm (MI 437/39; Pax 482; Nuri Pere 1156). Good very fine. £300-400
France, Louis XV (1710-1715-1774), France mediates Peace between the Holy Roman Empire, Russia
and Turkey, Copper Medal, 1739, by F Marteau, bust right, hair tied with ribband, rev France seated,
offers olive sprays to the personifications of Russia, the Empire and Turkey, VIRTUTIS ET JUSTITAE
FAMA, in exergue, GERMAN ET RUSS PAX CUM OTTOMAN CONCILIATA, 41mm (Divo 102). Extremely
fine. £120-150
The Battle at Navarino, Bronze Medal, 1827, helmeted head of Minerva right, French legend around
“The Anglo-French-Russian Fleet Defeat the Turks at Navarin, 20 of October 1827”, rev triplex of
crowns, radiant crosses over crescents in the angles, 34mm (Diakov 466.1 R2, Coll. 530; Dogan 6475;
Eimer 1196, Iversen CXIX). Good extremely fine. £120-150
A popular medal for collectors of Ottoman, Greek, French, British and Russian medals.
3490 ~The Battle of Navarino, Admiral Marie Henri Daniel Gauthier, comte de Rigny (1782-1835), Copper
Medal, 1828, by J F Domard, bare head left, rev Victory, holding thunder-bolt, galley and palm branch,
stands on prow of ancient galley, 51mm (BDM I, 601; Dogan 6476; MH 193). Extremely fine. £250-300
Gauthier, who had joined the Navy in 1798, was appointed Rear-Admiral on the re-establishment of the Kingdom. He
commanded the French squadron at Navarino, in alliance with the British and Russian fleets.
P
te RAS:
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3491 Centenary of the Battle of Navarino, Bronze Medal, 1927, by Kelaidis, conjoined busts of the admirals
of the British, French and Russian fleets, rev legend in wreath, 40mm (Dogan 6477). Extremely
fine. £100-120
3492. ~=— The Declaration of War on Turkey, Bronze Medal, 1828, by H Gube, produced by Loos, cyrillic legends
type, laureate head of Nicholas I right, rev veiled woman left, blesses warrior with cross and offers
sword, 38mm (Diakov 470.2; Dogan 6479). Choice extremely fine. £100-120
3493 The Russo-Turkish War, Crimea, The Heroic Deed of the Brig Mercury, Bronze Medal, 1829, by
A Klepikov and A Lyalin, double-headed Russian Eagle within wreath, rev semi-naked flag-bearer on
shell, defeated enemies either side, 66mm (Diakov 1791). About extremely fine, scarce. £200-250
3494
3495
3496
3497
Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha (1769-1805-1849), Foundation of the Stone Bridges across the Nile in the
Delta Region, Copper Medal, undated (AH 1263 (1847)), unsigned, a closed sluice-gate in the Nile
Barrage, rev inscription in Arabic in seven lines, 45mm (Nicol 6220). Good very fine. £250-300
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Austria / Hungary / Turkey / USA, The Rescue of Martin Koszta, 1853, Restrike Copper
Presentation Medal, as awarded to Commander Duncan Ingram, by Peter F Cross, James B
Longacre and S Eastman, USS Saint Louis and the Austrian brig SMS Hussar in the harbour at
Smyrna, the town beyond, rev eagle at base of oak and olive wreath, legend in ten lines above,
PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ... AS A TESTIMONIAL OF THE HIGH SENSE ...,
76mm (Dogan 6553; NA-26). Extremely fine. £50-70
Duncan N Ingraham (1802-1891) entered the US navy in 1812. In 1853, as commander of the USS St Louis by threatening to open
fire on the Austrian SMS Hussar, he secured the release of Martin Koszta, a leading figure from the Hungarian Revolution of
1848 and prospective American citizen, who had been seized by Greeks at Smyrna at the instigation of Austrian officials. In 1861
Ingram was appointed chief of ordnance, construction and repair in the Confederate Navy.
3496 3497
France, Crimean War, The New Alliance, with Great Britain and Turkey, Copper Medal, 1854,
by A Caqué, Napoleon III clasps hands with Queen Victoria and Abdul Aziz, DIEU LES PROTEGE, rev
legend in ten lines, EN 1854 SOUS LE REGNE DE/ NAPOLEON III ...,36.5mm, in circular card box of issue
(Divo 185). Choice extremely fine. £180-220
France, Crimean War, Napoleon III (1808-1873, President and Emperor 1848-1852-1870), The Battle of
Alma, Copper Medal, 1854, by V M Borrel, bare head left, rev legend in eight lines, VICTOIRE D’ALMA
REMPORTE SUR LES RUSSES ... FRANCE D’ANGLETERRE ET DE TURQUIE, 37mm (Divo 205). Choice
extremely fine. £200-250
3498
3499
3500
France, Crimean War, Napoleon III (1808-1873, President and Emperor 1848-1852-1870), The Battle
of Inkermann, Copper Medal, 1854, by V M Borrel, bare head left, rev legend in nine lines, VICTOIRE
D’INKERMANN REMPORTE SUR LES RUSSES ... FRANCE D’ANGLETERRE ET DE TURQUIE, 37mm
(Divo 213). Choice extremely fine. £200-250
Great Britain, Crimean War, Peace with Russia, White Metal Medal, 1856, by Thomas Ottley, standing
female figure, shield at her side bearing the arms of Britain, France, Italy and Turkey, accepts the sword
of surrender from the kneeling, helmeted figure of Russia, rev nine-line inscription, 50mm (Diakov -;
BHM 2578, R’). Nearly extremely fine, scarce. £120-150
Sultan Abdul Mejid (1823-1839-1861), Copper Medal, 1854, byalay Hart, The Ottoman Alliance with
France and England against Russia, bust of the Sultan, almost full-face, wearing Order over cloak and
with plumed hat, around him a border of shields naming the military hierarchy of the Crimean War,
rev Victory inscribes a memorial pyramid, a mosque behind, LA FRANCE ET L’ANGLETERRE UNIES
POUR LA DEFENSE DU DROIT, DIEU LE VEUT, 72mm (Pere -; E -). Good very fine, rare. £800-1000
3501
3502
3503
Sultan Abdul Mejid (1823-1839-1861), The Treaty of Paris (The Fall of Sebastopol and Peace in Europe),
1856, Copper Medal, by J Pinches, the Allied flags and scales above a panoramic tableau of the naval
action at Sebastopol, rev legend in wreath, this bound with ribbon naming the allies, 51mm
(BHM 2581; Dogan 6556; E 1509; Pax 812). Old acquisition number on edge, extremely fine with rich chestnut
patina. £250-300
Egypt, Muhammad Sa’id Pasha (1237-1270-1280h; 1822-1854-1863 AD), Construction of the Citadel of
Qala’at Sa’idyya, at the mouth of the Nile near Alexandria, Silver Medal, 1271h (1855), aerial plan of
the fort, with Arabic inscriptions, rev Arabic legend in seven lines, 64mm (Cairo 6219; Fonrobert D295):
A handsome cartographic medal, good very fine, lightly toned, extremely rare. £3500-4500
Egypt, Ismail Pascha (1863-1879), Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894), Opening of the Suez Canal, White
Metal Medal, 1869, by A Restelli, Turin, bust left, rev aerial panorama of the canal, from the Red Sea to
the Mediterranean, 50mm (Wiirz 5145; BDM V, 95). Good very fine. £100-150
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3504 = Austria / Palestine, Franz Joseph (1830-1848-1916), Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy
Cross, Bronze Medal, 1869, by J Tautenhayn, laureate head of Franz Joseph right, rev standing figure
of Religion flanked by two kneeling angels, SACRVM REDEMTORIS SEPVLCRVM POST CRVCIATAS
EXPEDITIONES OMNIVM IMPERATORVM OCCIDENTALIVM PRIMVS INVISIT, 72mm (Andr 1235;
Dogan 6583; Horsky 3806; Kenner 149; Wurz 2483). Lacquered and with minor wear to highest points,
otherwise extremely fine. £00-70
The Emperor Franz Joseph, whose many titles included “King of Jerusalem”, made his pilgrimage on his way to the opening
ceremony of the Suez Canal. He was the first Christian Emperor to visit Jerusalem since the Crusades and it is reported that he
was greeted enthusiastically by those of all the religions of Jerusalem - Jews, Moslems and Christians.
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3505 Russo-Turkish War, Romania, Karl I von Hohenzollern (1866-1914), Bronze Medal, 1881, by W Kullrich,
bust left, rev personification of Romania, 1877-1888, highly detailed military procession around, 84mm
(Dogan 6605; Sommer K 101). Extremely fine and rare. £300-400
3506 Turkey and Greece, the Balkan War 1912-1913, Admiral Pavlos Koundouriotis, Victor of the Battle of
Elli, Bronze Medal, by P M Dammann, bust left, rev Greek flag flies over the guns of the battlecruiser
George Averof, 51mm (Dogan 6641; SCA 5, 396). About extremely fine. £250-300
During the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, the victory at the Battle of Elli, 3 December 1912, kept the Turkish fleet out of the Aegean sea.
Susequently the Turks succeeded in sinking the Makedonia, 1 January 1913, but were again defeated by Koundouriotis, on the 5 January.
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First World War, The Triple Alliance, uniface Bronze Plaquette, 1915, seated lion left, behind the arms of
the allies including the crescent and star of Turkey, beneath the crowns of Austria and Hungary, 70mm
x 64mm (Dogan 6672; Hauser 1362; Wtirz 6932). Extremely fine with lovely red patina. £250-300
First World War, Armistice on the Eastern Front, Peace Talks in Brest-Litowsk, 1917, cast Bronze
Medal by Karl Goetz, Emperor Wilhelm and Leon Trotsky amongst others share a car bound for the
peace talks, rev rifles surrounding a tree decorated with candles, 58mm (Dogan 6782; Kienast 200).
Extremely fine. £200-300
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Aviation / Banking / France / Romania / Turkey, The Compagnie Franco-Roumaine de Navigation
Aerienne, founded 1920, by Aristide Blank, Bronze Medal, by Henry Nocq, two bi-planes over map of
Europe with flight-lines from Paris to Constantinople etc, rev bi-plane flies over speeding stage-coach,
car and train, 72mm (Dogan 6801). Nearly extremely fine. £250-300
Aristide Blank (1883-1960), Jewish Romanian financier, economist and banker, with interests in America. He was the victim of
an attack in April 1924 in an incident that sparked an anti-Semitic campaign in Bucharest.
Ottoman Empire, Greek War of Independence, General Theodoros Kolokotronis (1770-1843), Copper
Medal, 1926, bust right in turban-type cap, the portrait after David d’ Angers (signed David 1828),
rev legend to left of olive branch, 40mm. Light scuff to highest points, nearly extremely fine. £120-200
Egypt, President Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (1918-1956-1970), Silvered-bronze Medal, 1963, head
left, rev Egyptian ship sails to left, Arabic legends both sides, 80mm. Extremely fine. £140-180
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USA, Abbas Effendi, called Abdu’l-Baha (1844-1921), founder of the Baha’i faith, Visit to America,
Bronze Plaquette, 1912 by Louis Potter, struck by Davison, Philadelphia, for the Circle of Friends of the
Medal, bearded bust left, rev pilgim stands in archway, 76mm x 51mm, contained in original book-type
folder with 15 page descriptive text. Dull surface, otherwise as issued. £80-120
Germany, The Triple Alliance, with Austria and Turkey, Silver Medal, 1915, by Sturm and Ball, heads
of the nations’ respective leaders, SOLI DEO GLORIA, rev eagle on branch, TURKEI below, 34mm
(Zetzmann 3033). Extremely fine, dark tone. £120-150
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Germany, The Triple Alliance, with Austria and Turkey, large cast Iron Medal, 1915, by Hans Guradze
and Robert Ball, Berlin, the leaders of the four nations on horseback facing, rev eagle on a tempestuous
globe, 1914 WELTKRIEG 1916, 135mm (Zetzmann 3052). Extremely fine, an impressive medal. £250-300
United States of America
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Terracotta Medal, by Jean-Baptiste Nini (1719-1786), bust left wearing
fur hat, B FRANLIN AMERICAIN, signed on truncation, NINI F 1777 next to armorial shield depicting
lightning, date repeated below, raised, stepped border around, 113mm, usual piercing for suspension
(Biardi & Sibille, Jean-Baptiste Nini, 94; cf Betts 548, pp.247-8; Ford XIV [2006], 327-328). Lightly patinated
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with age, nearly extremely fine. £700-900
Franklin had been appointed as the American envoy to France in September 1776, where he was to stay until 1785. This medal
was made by Nini when Franklin was a guest of Nini’s patron, Jacques Donatien Le Ray du Chaumont (17 26-1803). Franklin
sent five or six cases packed with medals to America but they were lost in a shipwreck off the French coast at Noirmoutier. At
least four cases were recovered, stored at a customs’ warehouse in Nantes and forgotten. Rediscovered in 1830, they were sold
on to agents of the navy and again forgotten until two cases were bought in 1876 by a French collector, Mr Myrvoix, from whom
Spink & Son acquired a number of examples which were offered in the Numismatic Circular at 25/- each.
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British Guiana, Enamelled Postage Stamp Brooch, issue dates 1889/90, comprising 5-Cent, ultramarine,
1-Cent, sea green and 2-Cent, purple and orange, 48mm. Unusual and superbly made, extremely
fine £100-150
Trinidad, Sir Ralph Abercromby (1734-1801), The Centenary of the Capture of Trinidad, Silver Medal,
1897, uniformed bust of Abercromby, almost full-face (after portrait by John Hoppner), rev the ships in
harbour at Port of Spain, 48mm (BHM 3623; Eimer 1809; MH 457). Extremely fine, dull tone. £80-120
EUROPEAN ART MEDALS
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France, “Hercule Etouffant Antée”, uniface Bronze Medal, first struck 1839, by André Vauthier-Galle
(1818-1899), Hercules wrestles with Antaeus, his lion-skin and club discarded, 55mm, a restrike c.1930s.
Extremely fine. £150-200
The original medal won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1839
France, ‘Salut au Soleil’, Bronze Plaquette (1897-1898), by Georges Dupré (1869-1909), old man and
child watch a sunrise, rev verse over land and seascape, 64mm x 50mm; other Bronze Plaquettes (3),
by Henri Dubois ‘Salut au Soleil’, 55mm x 42mm; Alphée Dubois, a cherubic presentation, 52mm x
35mm; Daniel Dupuis (1849-1899), “Horticulture”, 1892, two women tend a plant in pot, rev naked
child seated against a tree, 60mm x 48mm. Very fine and better. (4) £100-120
The first was awarded as a third-class medal at the 1899 Paris Salon.
France, “La Jeunesse”, Bronze Plaquette with arched top, 1899, by Jules-Prosper Legastelois (1885-
1931), produced for the Société des Amis de la Médaille Frangaise, bust of a young girl right, rev three
iris flowers, 60mm x 48mm, numbered 44 on edge (Maier 1). Extremely fine. £200-250
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France,The International Exposition, Paris, Bronze Plaquette, 1900, by Jules Edourde Roine (1857-
1916), produced for the Société des Amis de la Médaille Francaise, “La France accueille et couronnelle
geniedes deux mondes”, after A Besnard, the figures with Gods above, crowd round before the figure
of France, rev cityscape of Paris, 55mm x 68mm, numbered 101 on edge (Maier 6). Extremely
fine. £150-200
France, “Combat des Cerfs”, Bronze Plaquette (1900), by Georges Gardet (1863-1939), produced
for the Société des Amis de la Médaille Francaise, two stags fight in wooded landscape, rev two
doe and two fauns rest in wooded landscape, 58mm x 95mm, numbered 229 on edge (Maier 9).
Extremely fine. £350-400
The image of the fighting stags by Georges Gardet was also popular as a sculptural bronze.
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France,“Cléopatre”, Bronze Plaquette (1902), by Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910), produced for the
Société des Amis de la Médaille Francaise, her bust right, to left lovebirds within the Conan AC
monogram, necklace below, rev the Queen enthroned atop an elephant, rides to the right, withattendants
on another, lead by an ibis, 66mm x 84mm, numbered 213 on edge (Maier 16). Extremely fine. £450-550
A sensitive and remarkably modern medal by the then elderly and famous sculptor, known for his animal sculptures, Ferdinand
de Lessops at Suez and an equestrian Joan of Arc in Paris.
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France, “La Baigneuse”, small Bronze Plaquette, 1903, by Abel Lafleur (1875-1953), produced for the
Société des Amis de la Médaille Francaise, a naked woman stands ankle-deep in a stream, rev she
sits on plinth, her legs draped, tending her hair, 71mm x 41mm, numbered 176 on edge (Maier 24).
Extremely fine. £200-250
Abel Lafleur, sculptor, best remembered for designing the FIFA World Cup Trophy, called the ‘Coupe du Monde’, though later
renamed the Jules Rimet Trophy.
France, “Le Printemps” and “Adolescents”, pair of Bronze Medals (1903, 1907), by Louis Dejean (1872-
1954), standing naked female, rev naked couple in embrace; and standing naked youth, rev two girls
and youth, naked in woodland setting, 60mm and 58mm, numbered 101 and 163 on edge respectively.
Extremely fine. (2) £300-400
In 1909 Dejean produced the portrait plaquette of Andrew Carnegie as a life-saving award for the Fondation Carnegie.
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Austria, Artur Kaan (1867-1940), “Gloria Artis”, Bronze Members’ Plaquette for the Vienna Sculptors’
Association, 1903, a youth with olive branch by statue of Athena holding winged Victory in her hand,
IHREN VNTER STUTZENDEN MITGLIEDERN, 175mm x 110mm. Very fine, rare. £100-150
Kaan was a member of the Siebenerklub, founded in 1895 and disolved in 1897 with the founding of the Secession.
France,”Age and Youth”, Bronze Plaquette (1904), by René Baudichon (1878-1963), an elderly
couple in classical dress rest at the road-side, rev naked child reaches for an apple, 61.5mm x 68mm;
“L’étudiante”, a reading female figure leans on desk, on which are books, a globe and painting, rev
tablet of leaf sprays, 60mm x 38mm. Good very fine. (2) £80-120
The first was originally produced under the title ‘Noces d’argent’ (Silver Wedding) with the space on the right on the reverse
probably reserved for those who wished to engrave their names and date of marriage.
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3528 France, “La Biere et le Vin”, pair of Medals, Silver and Bronze, 1906, by Jean Lecroart (1883-1967) and
(reverse) Fr J Werner, for the Société Hollandaise-Belge des Amis de la Médaille d’Art, bust of farm-
girl in bonnet to right, with hops around, rev naked female reclines imbibing on a handful of grapes,
65mm, in card boxes of issue. Virtually mint state. (2) £80-120
The obverse signature is, as always, very weak and the attribution to Lecroart is often overlooked.
3529 France, “Caresses Maternelles”, Bronze Plaquette, 1907, by Albert Manque, produced for the Société
des Amis de la Médaille Francaise, a mother, heavy of thigh, seated with an infant boy standing on
her lap, rev two infant children on tip-toe embrace, 70mm x 45mm, numbered 57 on edge (Maier 42).
Extremely fine. £250-300
Little appears to have been published that gives any further details regarding the medallist Albert Manque.
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Société des Amis de la Médaille Francaise, a young girl pulling a toy cart drinks from a bow] held by
her mother, rev the same girl, standing, watches a cat and her four kittens now sampling the contents
of the bowl, 75mm x 50mm, numbered on edge 125 (Maier 41; Coll R Marx 132 [recté 1909]; ANS Exh
Cat 1910, p 113, 8; BDM VII, 391). Softly executed, very fine and very rare. £200-250
Genevieve Granger, sculptress and medallist, whose work is infrequently met with.
3531 ~~ France, “La Pensée”, Belgian Bronze Plaquette, 1909, by Jean Lecroart (1883-1967), female head facing,
rev text, “Les yeux fixés sur la Chimére ...”, 63mm x 45mm (BDM VI, 542; ANS, New York 1910).
Extremely fine. £40-60
A presentation medal (as stated on the reverse) from J Lecroart and Fonson and C* at the conference of the Société de la Médaille d’Art.
3532 France, “Le Bain”, Bronze Plaquette with arched top (1910), by Fernand David (1872-1927), produced
for the Société des Amis de la Médaille Francaise, three naked female figures around a bath, one dries
a leg, one washes her hair, the third reclines before them, rev a mother handed her child by a nurse,
75mm x 57mm, numbered 98 on edge (Maier 59). Extremely fine. £150-200
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Belgium, The Opening of the Aquarium and Reptile Gallery, Antwerp Z00, Bronze Medal, 1911, by
Floris de Cuyper, a semi-draped figure lies by pool in which swim exotic fish, rev legend in eight
lines, 64mm; France, Florence Nightingale, Bronze Medal, 1921, by P Lenoir, for the American Nurses
Memorial, L’Ecole Florence Nightingale, bust of nurse right, rev burning lamp, edge engraved
BORDEAUX, FRANCE, 49.5mm. Extremely fine and very fine. (2) £80-120
The date on the second medal commemorates the laying of the Foundation Stone for the memorial at the Florence Nightingale
College of Nursing, Bagatelle, by Miss Helen Scott Hay, Chief Nurse of the American Red Cross in Europe. It commemorates
the 278 American nurses who were killed or died on active duty during the Great War.
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France, “Prometheus”, Hommage to Paul De Vigne, uniface Silvered-bronze Plaquette (1912-1913),
by Pieter-Jan Braecke (1858-1938), Prometheus astride a rearing horse, to left, 85.5mm x 60mm. Good
very fine. £60-80
Paul De Vigne (1843-1901), Belgian sculptor with whom Pieter Braecke worked.
France, “La Santé”, Silver Plaquette with arched top, 1913, by Jean Lecroart (1883-1967), for the Société
Hollandaise Belge des Amis de la Médaille, bust of Hygieia within arch, rev naked female, a snake
entwined around her arm, makes offering at the tomb of Asclepius on which rests an infant girl, 63mm
x 70mm. Lightly toned, very fine. £120-150
Netherlands, Johannes Cornelis Wienecke (1872-1945), State Railroad Exploration Society, 50%
Anniversary, Bronze Medal, 1913, steam engine in enclosed station, rev signal gantry seen through
station arch, 65mm, in card box of issue (Moyaux 535a; Swan 324); “Sietske at the age of 15”, the
medallist’s daughter, small square Bronze Plaquette, 1914, for the Société Hollandaise Belge des
Amis de la médaille, her bust left in roundel, rev medal minting press, 47mm. First as struck, the
second extremely fine. (2) £100-150
Sietske was named after her paternal grandmother, who Wienecke also depicted on a medal.
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USA, The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915, Bronze Tribute Medal, to the San Francisco
Earthquake, 1906, by Louis-Alexandre Bottée (1852-1940), the personification of San Francisco,
wearing mural crown, stands before the destroyed cityscape, rev Marianne seated offers olive branch
to American eagle, SYMPATHIE ADMIRATION, 90mm (cf Baldwin’s Auction 57, 23 September 2008, lot
841). Extremely fine, rare. £250-300
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France, “Honneur et Patrie”, World War I, Silvered-bronze Plaquette, 1915, by Felix Rasumny (1869-
1940), issued by the town of St Etienne, draped female figure lays wreath on body of fallen soldier,
rev sun rises over monument, willow beyond, named below to Louis Mourier, 1915, 60mm x 60mm,
arched top, in case of issue; Nancy, International Exposition, 1909, Bronze Medal, by E Bussiere,
seated figure of Nancy with shield, townscape beyond, rev facade of exhibition building, named to
Alfred Neél “Collaborateur - Médaille d’Or”, 64mm, in case of issue, inscribed in gold block on lid,
“Exposition International de l’Est de la France - Nancy 1909”. Both extremely fine, small edge nick on the
second. (2) £80-120
Austria, Archduke Otto von Habsburg (1912-2007), Crown Prince of Austria and Hungary, Bronze
Medal, 1917, by H Kautsch, bust right, rev crowned armorial shield, 65mm, suspension loop, good fine;
USA, Washington Bicentennial, Bronze Medal, 1932, by Laura Gardin Fraser, bust left, rev Liberty,
55mm; Ulysses S Grant, a 1930s (?) restrike of the 1863 Medal, 75mm (cf Julian MI-29); Marian Anderson
(1897-1993), singer, Bronze Congressional Medal, 1977, 76mm, these very fine. (4) £50-80
The Washington Medal was the winner of an open design competition sponsored by the Bicentennial Commission.
France, “Faune et Faunesse”, small Bronze Plaquette, by Paul-Leonard Durousseau (1897-1970),
produced for the Société des Amis de la Médaille Francaise, partial head of male faun, looking
downwards, rev curvaceous standing naked faunesse, playing a double flute, 63mm x 32mm, edge
stamped 95 (Maier 48; R Marx 140; ANS Exh Cat 1910, p 88, 7-8; BDM VII, 243). Extremely fine and very
rare. £200-250
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France, “Aviation”, large Bronze Medal, 1920, by Paul-Marcel Dammann (1885-1939), a naked female
figure attaching wings to ankles, FERIAM SIDERA, rev storks with young take-off from cliff-top, 90mm
(CGMP p.115). Extremely fine. £200-300
Horace, “Sublimi feriam sidera vertice” - my sublimations will exalt me to the stars
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France, “Cypris”, large Bronze Medal, 1925, by Leon Claude Mascaux (1882-1965), produced
for the Société des Amis de la Médaille Francaise, a winged cherub stands before the naked
Cypris seated on the ground, she pulls the petals from a flower he holds towards her, rev
Cypris stands in the bow of a small boat paddled by the cherub, legend in Greek below, KYTIPI
MNTHP MO@QN AEAAOTIAQN, 108mm, edge stamped and numbered 184 (cf Baldwin’s Auction
74, lot 1881). Extremely fine and rare. £300-400
A superb Art Deco design struck in high relief by Maurice Koller, Paris. Cypris (Lady of Cyprus) is one of several local names
given to the goddess Aphrodite.
Great Britain, Frank Bowcher (1864-1938), Bronze Presentation Statuette of Amenemhat III (reigned
1850-1800 BC), dated 1925, the Pharaoh seated on a decorative throne, the back of which carries
his signature and a presentation inscription that reads “Souvenir of the Inauguration of the Gezira
Irrigation Project January 1926 Presented by Ransomes & Rapier Ltd Suppliers of The Sluice Gates”,
this in a cartouche, 202mm. In excellent condition. £150-200
The statue seems to copy an original in the Hermitage Museum. The Gezira Scheme, in Sudan, was initially financed by the
Sudan Plantations Syndicate in London and began with the opening of the Sennar Dam. It distributes water from the Blue Nile
through canals and ditches to the area between the Blue and White Nile rivers. Ransomes & Rapier Ltd was founded in Norwich
in 1789 by Robert Ransome, who later moved the business to Ipswich, which is where the sluice gates were manufactured.
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Belgian African Colonies, colonial troops in the Great War, Bronze Medal, 1926, by Joseph Witterwulghe
(1883-1967), for Les Amis de la Médaille d’Art, native rifleman crouching, CAMEROUN TABORA EST-
AFRICAIN RHODESIE 1914-1918, rev naked negress kneels belfore Belgica, RUANDA, 70.5mm, in card
box of issue, with leaflet. Mint state. £100-150
One of a series of medals commemorating the participation of Belgium in the Great War.
France, “Femme au colier”, “Adornment”, uniface square Art Deco Bronze Plaquette, 1929, by Marcel
Claude Renard (1893-1974), naked kneeling female with necklace, drapes a sheet over her shoulders,
53mm x 53mm (CGMP p.342). Extremely fine, attractive and scarce. £100-150
The Paris jeweller, La Gerbe d’Or (The Golden Sheaf) presented its 1929 calendar suspended from this plaquette.
Belgian Congo, The Inauguration of the Bas-Congo-Katanga Railway by the King and Queen of the
Belgians, Bronze Plaquette, 1929, by Eugene J de Bremaecker (1879-1963), for Les Amis de la Médaille
d’Art, Belgic muse and naked negress point at map and legend, rev negro worker and his European
supervisor, 56mm x 66mm; Georges Moulaert, Belgian engineer, Bronze Medal, 1938, by Alphonse
Darville (1910-1990), bust left, rev names of the projects associated with Moulaert, 1902-1938, including
the Société des Mines d’or de Kilo Moto, 84.5mm (1938), both in card boxes of issue, first with leaflet.
Mint state. (2) £80-120
France, “Phonographe”, Bronze Medal, c.1930, by Maurice Delannoy (1885-1972), six musicians of
various disciplines, musical notes on ribband scrolling out from a gramophone, rev gramophone
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record, 68mm. Almost extremely fine, scarce. £80-120
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France, “La Fumeuse”, uniface Bronze Plaquette (1931), by Pierre-Charles Lenoir (1879-1953), semi-
naked female reclines on chaise, cigarette between fingers, exhaling smoke, 74mm x 52mm (Maier 281;
CGMP p.243; Trusted [2007], p.88, pl.148). An evocative Art-Deco medal, extremely fine. £120-160
The Victoria & Albert Museum description states that the “half-dressed woman smoking a cigarette suggests modernity and a
hedonistic approach to life ... French medals could now be decorative objects in their own right ...”
France, “Exaltation de la Fleur”, uniface Bronze Plaquette (c.1931), by Pierre Turin (1891-1968), a
modern rendition of the “stele de Pharsale”, two women face-to-face, classically draped present esach
other with lotus flowers, signed in monogram and with inscription D’APRES L’ANTIQUE, 78mm x
88mm. Extremely fine. £350-400
The image is after a famous stele from Pharsale (Thessalie), c.470-460 BC and acquired by the Louvre in 1863. It has been
suggested that the figures are the goddesses Demeter and her daughter Persephone. It is interesting how little the image is
changed and yet how modern it has become.
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France, “La Danse Antique”, uniface Bronze Medal (1934), by Marco Tob6n Mejia (1876-1933), a couple
dance naked, the female to the fore, her arms spread, 60mm (CGMP p.375). Extremely fine. £100-150
ge a Colombian sculptor, also produced a companion medal, “La Danse Classique”, the dancers in similar pose but clothed,
she in tutu.
Belgium, Death of King Albert, Bronze Medal, 1934, by Georges Verbanck (1881-1961), for Les Amis
de la Médaille d’Art, laureate head left, rev an angel with flowing hair, her wings spread around
legend, SON ME SEULE ACHEVE L’ASCENSION, and to right, MARCHE-LES-DAMES 17 2 34, 70mm;
Elisabeth (of Bavaria), Queen of the Belgians (1876-1965), Honorary President of the Royal Society a
‘Les Amis de la Médaille’, Bronze Medal, 1950-1951, by Armand Bonnetain (1883-1973), bust left in
large hat, rev legend, 70mm, both in card box of issue, with leaflets. Mint state. (2) £80-120
King Albert, a passionate climber, died in an accident while climbing alone at Marche-les-Dames in the Ardennes. The reverse
of the medal, with the side-long angel, proves a most effective ‘Art Deco’ design.
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Belgium, The City of Li¢ge, square Bronze Plaquette, undated (1930s), by Louis Dupont (1896-1967),
half-length naked female holds the shield of Liege, rev three naked females representing the steel,
mining and shipping industries, 72mm. Extremely fine. £60-80
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France, “Initiation 4 la Danse”, Tin Medal, 1951, by Michel Charpentier (born 1927), issued by the
Club Francais de la Médaille, exuberant dancing girls, 74mm, acknowledging the winning design of
the ‘Grand Prix de Rome en médaille’, no.40 (of 150); FAO, “Ceres” Medal, 1972, by G Simon, for the
International Forrestry Congress, Buenos Aires, Silvered-bronze Medal, bust of Indira Ghandi left, rev
tree design, 68mm; Apollo, unsigned Bronze Medal, 60mm; Restrike Napoleonic Medal for Marengo;
Germany, Opel and Heynitz, bicentenary, Silvered Medal, 1965, 45mm, in case. All a ee
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Arts and Crafts, James Watt Medal of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic, First Class, in Silver, by
W Wyon, awarded 1908, “Newlyn Industrial Class. For Copper Mirror”, 45mm. Extremely fine and a
rare association item. £80-120
The Newlyn Industrial Class was established in 1890 by John Drew Mackenzie, financed by the local MP, T B Bolitho with the
assistance of several other artists. The idea was to give work to the locals when fishing was unreliable as a source of income. The
Class specialised in repoussé copper work and produced a wide range of domestic and decorative items, including mirrors.
Aviation, Orville and Wilbur Wright (1871-1948 and 1867-1912), pioneer aviators, Congressional
Medal for their Achievements, rectangular Bronze Plaquette, 1909, by C E Barber and G T Morgan,
conjoined busts of Orville and Wilbur Wright, to left, rev the winged female figure of Genius
of Aviation flying right, over a globe, IN RECOGNITION AND APPRECIATION OF THEIR ABILITY
COURAGE AND SUCCESS IN NAVIGATING THE AIR SHALL MOUNT UP WITH WINGS AS EAGLES,
81mm x 56mm Nearly extremely fine. £80-100
Aviation, Alcock and Brown, First Trans-Atlantic Flight 1919, White Metal Medal, facing busts of
Alcock and Brown, rev bi-plane flying in clouds, terrestrial globe below, 58mm (BHM -; Eimer -).
Very fine and rare. £120-150
John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight, flying a modified World War I Vickers Vimy
bomber, powered by two Rolls-Royce Eagle 360 hp engines, from St John’s Newfoundland to Connemara, Co Galway (Ireland)
in June 1919. They received the Daily Mail prize of £10,000 and flew to Manchester the following month, where they were given
a civic reception and received further awards, as commemorated by this medal.
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Ballooning, Etienne Montgolfier (1745-1799), Copper Tribute Medal, 1821, by Caqué, from Amedée
Durand’s series of “Grands Hommes Frangais”, bust left, rev legend, 41mm (Mal -). Nearly extremely
fine. £60-80
Ballooning, The Gordon Bennett Race, Zurich 1906, Silver Medal, by Huguenin, two men in balloon
basket, rev putto unveils tablet ‘engraved’ with city panorama and six balloons flying over, 40mm, 900
fine (Malpas 182). Nearly extremely fine. £60-80
The 1909 cup was won by the American Edgar W Mix, flying with André Roussel
Exhibitions, International Exhibition, London 1862, large Silver Medal, by E A Oudine, laureate head
of Napoleon III to left, rev legend and centre with a struck inscription MR P CUNLIFFE OWEN, 50mm
(Divo 460). Extremely fine, rare. £400-500
Sir Francis Phillip Cunliffe-Owen, KCB, KCMG, CIE (1828-1894), Director of the Foreign Section of the London 1862 International
Exhibition, aide to Sir Henry Cole and assistant executive commissioner at other expositions (see also lots 3560, 3563).
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Exhibitions, Ireland, International Exhibition of Arts & Manufacturers, Dublin 1865, large Bronze
Medal, ‘For Services’, by Alex Geefs, winged female figure with bountiful cornucopia over the sea,
products of Arts and Industry in the foreground set against a Greek-style temple, rev wreath with a
crowned Irish harp, engraved inscription in the centre PC OWEN FOR SERVICES, 74mm (Eimer 1577).
Extremely fine. £120-150
3561
3562
3563
Exhibitions, Wakefield Industrial Exhibition Prize, 1865, large Bronze Medal, by Thomas Ottley, a
female figure, seated to right, bestows laurels upon a group of artists and craftsmen, rev an ornamental
sexfoil decorated with symbols of art and industry, including a locomotive engine, an engraved
award inscription in the central field, above 77mm (Eimer 1578). Nearly extremely fine. £70-90
Exhibitions, Coventry Industrial Exhibition Prize, 1867, large Bronze Medal, central vignette of
Coventry Cathedral and the surrounding area, large wreath decorated with armorial shields around,
rev equestrian figure of Lady Godiva, edge inscribed HENRY BRIGHT, 70mm (BHM -; Eimer -).
Extremely fine and rare. £120-150
Henry Bright (1810-1873), landscape painter.
Exhibitions, Universal Exposition, Paris, Jury Members Badges (2), 1878, Official Juror’s Badge
for the Exposition, Silver-gilt and blue enamel, by J H Brevette, EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE R.F.
PARIS JURY 1878, 40mm; and Juror’s Badge for the Animal Section of the Exposition, Gilt-bronze
with black and white enamel, EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE. ANIMAUX - 1878 - PARIS JURY 33mm
Extremely fine. (2) | £120-150
ee pair of badges coming from the estate of Sir Francis Phillip Cunliffe-Owen, KCB, KCMG, CIE (1828-1894), who presided
as Commissioner at various international expositions (see also lots3559, 3560). , 3
3564
3565
Exhibitions, Australia, Queen Victoria, Jubilee 1887, International Exhibition, Bronze Medal, by
E A Altmann, Melbourne, crowned and veiled bust left, rev wreath of flora and fruit, FIRST ORDER OF
MERIT, 75.5mm, unnamed (C 1887, 5). Nearly extremely fine. £80-120
The Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition was opened on Jubilee day, Tuesday, 21 June 1887. It also celebrated the Jubilee of the foundation
of the colony of South Australia.
Exhibitions, USA, The World’s Columbian Exposition (The Chicago World’s Fair), 1892-1893, official
Bronze Medal, presented to E R Grobler, the Commissioner, Foreign Affairs Department, of the Orange
Free State, by August St Gaudens and C E Barber, Columbus steps ashore, rev Fame and Victory
with globe, atop a tablet which rests on the Santa Maria, named in small panel, 76mm. An important
association item, extremely fine or vitrtually so. £120-150
Esaias Reinier Grobler (1861-1937), was a member of the Free State Volksraad from 1886, becoming Commissioner, Foreign
Affairs Department and vice-chairman of the Volksraad, he chaired its last meeting in 1899. From 1907 to 1910 he was president
of the legislative council of the Free State and became a senator after the Union. From 1915 to 1922 he was Administrator of the
Orange Free State. During the Boer War he served as a Commandant with The Orange Free State Commandos under General
Hendrik Schoeman, commanding burghers on the Cape border. Promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the southern Free State
forces, Grobler defeated General Gatacre at Stormsberg and also fought at Colesberg and Paardeberg. He was wounded near
Springfontein, taken as a POW and held at the Bloemfontein concentration camp. More recently it has been suggested that he
was a “hensopper” and being held at Bloemfontein is another indicator that he voluntarily handed in his arms.
3566
3567
Exhibitions, Balkan States Exhibition, Earls Court, London, Gilt-bronze Medal of Merit, 1907, by
S Johnson, Milan, Britannia seated, holds wreath above exhibition facade, rev legend and cartouche
for naming within ‘Art Nouveau’ wreath, 54.5mm. Very fine, rare. £60-80
The exhibition included a Balkan village, a Balkan Theatre with peasant dancers and singers and a Tzegone gypsy band. More
memorable (though not Balkan!) was a display by six African Pygmies, along with ‘Hindoo freaks’, a flying machine and
Japanese fishing cormorants.
Exhibitions, Franco-British Exhibition, Earls Court, London, Silver Medal, 1908, by F Bowcher
for Vaughton, Victory stands between Britannia and Marianne, rev Peace stands before exhibition
eee named in tablet: Robert Morton Esq; Japan-British Exhibition, Shepherds Bush, London,
ee ae , se ee aay: by FGB for Vaughton, Britannia with figure of Japan, rev knight
Misi and Japanese hold wreath around view of exhibition, both 51 ; ti’ initials
HD he GE) ©) mm. Very fine, small ‘graffiti pei:
3568
3569
3570
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Exhibitions, Belgium, Universal Exposition, Brussels 1910, large Bronze Medal, by G Devreese,
equestrian figure heralds the exhibition opening, rev female figure laureates an artist holding a large
vase, 70mm. Nearly extremely fine. £60-80
Exploration, Captain James Cook (1728-1779), Memorial Medal, cast in plaster, by G Eichler
(Berlin), after the “Series Numimismatica” medal, 1823, by Thomas Smith, bust left, additional
borders around, in glazed brass frame, 80mm (cf BHM 1207). Highly decorative and much as
made, rare. £120-150
A copy Eichler label on the reverse advertises his 800 portraits.
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Exploration, Voyage of HMS Challenger 1872-1876, and ‘Report on the Scientific Results of the
Challenger Expedition, 1886-1895’, large Bronze Medal, by William S Black and William Birnie Rhind,
Neptune holds wreath around head of Britannia, rev armoured knight by naval trident, throws down
gauntlet, name inscribed on the edge A. A. W. Hubrecht, 75mm, in original red leather case of issue
from James Chrichton & Co, Edinburgh (BHM 3487, R2). Extremely fine and rare. £350-450
Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht (1853-1915), a Dutch zoologist, and contemporary of Charles Darwin, who worked at
the Natural History Museum in Leiden and, subsequently, as Professor of Zoology at the University of Utrecht. He received
honorary degrees from Giessen, St Andrews, Glasgow, Dublin and Princeton. The Hubrecht institute in Utrecht is named
after him. His personal collection of species, acquired mainly through links with the Dutch East Indies, is housed in the
Museum ftir Naturkunde in Berlin.
The Challenger Expedition of 1872-1876 was the first oceanographic research cruise to be undertaken. HMS Challenger was loaned
for the expedition by the Royal Navy and was extensively modified for the task, with space being cleared for the storage of samples
and gear with two laboratories, one for chemistry and one for natural sciences. HMS Challenger left Plymouth on 7 December 1872,
under the command of Captain G $ Nares, with 20 naval officers, 200 crew and a team of six scientists led by Dr Wyville Thomson.
Travelling the world’s oceans ona three and a half year-long cruise, the scientific team gathered data on the weather, and examined
the physical, chemical, biological and geological nature the oceans and ocean floor. Discoveries included the driving force of the
oceanic currents, 4714 new species of marine life and a new understanding of oceanic topography, ranging from the heights of
the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to the depths of the Marianas Trench. After a voyage of some 80,000 miles, HMS Challenger returned to
Spithead on 24 May 1876. From the data and samples amassed, 100 scientists under Sir John Murray continued the research; the
results were published over eleven years and in 50 volumes. A further voyage was made by the Challenger during 1886-1895.
Confirmed in Glenn Stein’s Roll. Only 120 medals believed issued. These were issued from the Challenger office in Edinburgh
3571
Exploration, Polar, Russia, SS Chelyuskin, Expedition to the Northern Maritime Route, 1933-1934,
50" Anniversary, Zinc(?) Medal, 1984, crew wave to plane, rev ship amidst Northern Lights, 61mm.
Extremely fine, rare. £150-200
The SS Chelyuskin had completed passage through the Northern Maritime Route before becoming stuck in ice and sinking.The
crew built an airstrip on the ice for the rescue plane to land.
3572
3573
Gambling, S Fiuri, Silver Shilling Token, by J Milton, SF monogram, 1 MAY 1792 — XII, rev ace of
spades within crowned Garter and wreath, 22mm (DW 311/31; M-Guest 148/1188). Mint state, lightly
toned. £80-100
S Fiuri’s gaming house was opened in Bury Street, St Mary Axe (London), 1 May 1792.
Masonic, George, Prince of Wales and William, Duke of Clarence, Grand Master and President, White
Metal Medal, 1802, by J G Hancock, issued by W Hollins, conjoined busts right, rev Fame and Prince’s
Plumes between oval vignettes of Masonic emblems, 42mm (BHM 530; Eimer 937; Harris 118b)
Very fine and rare. £80 120
Later George IV and William IV. The Prince of Wales had been initiated in 1787 at the Star and Garter Lodge in Pall Mall.
3574 Music, Salvatore Vigano (1769-1821), celebrated Italian composer, choreographer and dancer, large
Bronze Medal, 1817, figure of Prometheus chained to a rock and attacked by an eagle, rev fifteen line
inscription, 76mm (Niggl -; Baldwin’s Auction 63, 23 September 2009, lot 1542). Nearly extremely fine
and rare. £200-250
The medal’s obverse makes direct reference to Beethoven’s ‘Creatures of Prometheus’, for which Salvatore Vigano wrote the
libretto. The ballet was first performed on 28 March 1801 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
3575 Sport, The First Olympiad, Athens 1896, Gilt-bronze Participant’s Medal, by N Lytras and Wilhelm
Pittner, Victory seated with rising phoenix, the Acropolis beyond, rev legend within olive wreath, date
below, 50mm (Gad 42, 2). Extremely fine, slightest rubbing to obverse and test mark on lower edge. £250-350
3576 Sport, The First Olympiad, Athens 1896, Copper Participant’s Medal, by N Lytras and Wilhelm Pittner,
Victory seated with rising phoenix, the Acropolis beyond, rev legend within olive wreath, date
below, 50mm (Gad 42, 2). Nearly extremely fine. £200-250
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3578
3579
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Sport, Universal Exposition and Olympic Games, Paris, 1900, Gilt-bronze Medal to the architect
Thomas Edward Collcutt, by Jules Clément Chaplain (1839-1909), capped head of Marianne right, an
oak tree behind provides a wreath, rev female figure of Victory carries Industry, bearing a torch, the
exposition site below, panel at bottom with the recipient’s name, TH. E. COLLCUTT, 63.5mm, in leather
case of issue (Gad 4; MeF 81). Extremely fine. £80-120
Thomas Edward Collcutt (1840-1924), eminent English architect, whose commissions included the Savoy Hotel, the Palace
Theatre, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping and the (now, apart from the tower, demolished) Imperial Institute. He was awarded the
‘Grand Prix for Architecture’ at the previous Paris International Exposition in 1889. The Olympic Games were held jointly with
and seen to be a part of all that the Exposition encompassed.
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Sport, Universal Exposition and Olympic Games, Paris, 1900, Bronze Medal, by J C Chaplain, capped
head of of Marianne to right, rev female figure of Victory carries Industry, bearing a torch, the exposition
site below, panel at bottom with the recipient’s name, F. GODDARD, 63mm (Gad 4; MeF 81). Nearly
extremely fine. £80-100
The Olympic Games were held jointly with and seen to be a part of all that the Exposition encompassed.
Sport, Intermediary Olympic Games, Athens 1906, Gilt-bronze Participant’s Medal, by N Lytras and
Wilhelm Pittner, Victory seated with rising phoenix, the Acropolis beyond, rev legend within olive
wreath, dated in tablet, 50mm (Gad 56, 2). Nearly extremely fine. £250-350
The medal adapted from the 1896 participant’s medal, the original date replaced by the new date within a tablet.
3580 Sport, Intermediary Olympic Games, Athens 1906, Gilt-bronze Participant’s Medal, by N Lytras and
3581
3582
3583
Wilhelm Pittner, Victory seated with rising phoenix, the Acropolis beyond, rev legend within olive
wreath, dated in tablet, 50mm (Gad 56, 2). Good very fine though the gilding rubbed. £200-250
Sport, Intermediary Olympic Games, Athens 1906, Gilt-bronze Participant’s Medal, by N Lytras
and Wilhelm Pittner, Victory seated with rising phoenix, the Acropolis beyond, rev legend within
olive wreath, 50mm (Gad 56, 2). The date tablet obliterated though underlying 1896 date visible, otherwise
extremely fine. £200-300
Sport, Intermediary Olympic Games, Athens 1906, Gilt-bronze Participant’s Medal, by N Lytras and
Wilhelm Pittner, Victory seated with rising phoenix, the Acropolis beyond, rev legend within olive
wreath, dated in tablet, 50mm (Gad 56, 2). Good very fine though the gilding rubbed. £200-250
Sport, Intermediary Olympic Games, Athens 1906, Silvered-bronze Participant’s Medal, by N Lytras
and Wilhelm Pittner, Victory seated with rising phoenix, the Acropolis beyond, rev legend within olive
wreath, dated in tablet, 50mm (Gad 56, 2). Reverse extremely fine, obverse nearly so but spotted and rubbed
on high spots. £200-250
3584
3585
3586
Sport, Intermediary Olympic Games, Athens 1906, Silvered-bronze Participant’s Medal, by N Lytras
and Wilhelm Pittner, Victory seated with rising phoenix, the Acropolis beyond, rev legend within olive
wreath, dated in tablet, 50mm (Gad 56, 2). Silver rubbed, especially on the obverse, very fine. El 0=200
Sport, Intermediary Olympic Games, Athens 1906, Silvered-bronze Plaquette, by Paul Vannier, an
athlete stands before the Olympic Stadium holding a sword aloft, palm spray and shield, rev Victory
flies over olive tree and temple, 70mm x 49mm, in maroon leather fitted case of issue, named in gold
block on lid, “Société d’Encouragement a l’Education Physique dans L’armée & la Marine — 1914 — M
CORIN (Gad 57, 6). Choice extremely fine with ‘antique’ grey tone. £150-200
Sport, Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912, Pewter Participant’s Medal, by Bertram McKennal and Erik
Lindberg, Zeus seated on Ionian column, before a cityscape of Stockholm, rev triumphant winner
driven in quadriga, 51mm. Nearly extremely fine, small edge nick by medallist’s initials on the
reverse. £300-350
3587 Sport, Olympic Games, Antwerp, VII" Olympiad 1920, Bronze Participants Medal, by P Theunis,
athlete drives a biga right, rev Nike awards wreath to three athletes, 60mm (Gad 75.2). Nearly extremely
fine. £200-250
3588 Sport, Olympic Games, Helsinki, 1952, Bronze Participant’s Medal by K Rasanen, struck by Veljekset
Sundqvist Oy, male and female athletes holding torches, rev classical head reflected on the stadium,
54mm (Gad 125, 2). Extremely fine. £250-300
3589 Sport, Olympic Games, Helsinki, 1952, Bronze Torch-Bearer’s Plaquette, by Veljekset Sundqvist Oy,
flame, Olympic rings above, 70mm x 40mm (Gad 126, 4). Extremely fine. £80-120
3590 Sport, Olympic Games, Rome 1960, patinated Bronze Participants’ Medal, by Emilio Greco (1913-
1995), naked female torchbearer dances with the Olympic rings, rev doves of Peace soar upwards over
stadium, 55mm. Extremely fine. £120-150
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3591 World War I, France, Shooting Prize, large Bronze Medal, 1918, by Louis Coudray, the figure of
Marianne stands beside and instructs a near-naked youth to go forth, rev open landscape with rifles
and targets (engraved inscription on lower panel), 68mm. Extremely fine. £60-80
3592 World War I, Germany, Vice-Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee (1861-1914), Battle of Coronel, oval
Bronze Medal, 1914, by K Goetz, facing bust in cape, rev eagle on heraldic dolphin, 64mm x 47mm
(Kienast 145). Extremely fine. £100-150
The medal commemorates his victory at the Battle of Coronel, off the coast of Chile (Santa Maria), 1 November 1914, and the
sinking of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth. Spee was killed, 8 December 1914, attempting to raid the coaling station at
Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
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3594
World War I, Germany, Hermann Kovess von Kévesshaza (1854-1924), Surrender of Montenegro and
Capture of Mount Lovtchen, Bronze Medal, 1916, by Karl Goetz, bust left in tall cap, rev sword cuts
across serpent, 66.5mm (Kienast 172). Nearly extremely fine. £100-150
von Kévesshaza had been responsible for the over-running of Serbia, this leading to his appointment as Commander of the
expeditionary force sent to Montenegro early in 1916.
World War I, Germany, Bronze Medals (2), 1917, by Karl Goetz, Peace Offers by the Reichstag, Lloyd
George with palm branch, rev Nicolas Pashitch and others, 57.5mm; and Peace Offers by Pope Benedict
XV, Papal crown, dove and key, rev Germans withdrawing from colonies, 58mm (Kienast 192, 193).
Nearly extremely fine. (2) £150-200
3595 World War I, Germany, Medals (2), by Karl Goetz, Wilson’s Successes, in Iron, 1917, President faces
serpent, rev figures of neutral countries on bench, 57mm; and America’s Peace Terms, in Bronze, 1918,
President and his 14 points, rev dove on scales with four additional points, 58mm (Kienast 194, 203).
Nearly extremely fine. (2) £150-200
3596 World War II, The Blitz and the Battle of London, September 1940 - May 1941 / June - August
1944, Bronze Medal, by LE Pinches, an aircraft over the London sky above St Paul’s Cathedral,
caught in searchlights, rev an aircraft above the Tower of London, 57mm (BHM 4406; Eimer 2066).
Extremely fine. £60-80
The medal is usually found with a silvered finish and is unpublished thus.
CABINETS
3597 Late Victorian Mahogany Medal Collectors’ Cabinet, double-doors, with lock and key, 340mm x
305mm x 245mm, containing 12 trays with finger-pierced spaces for medals of 1%, 1%, 2, 2%4 and 3
inches in diameter and one double-depth plain tray. In good order, a few trays need easing. £150-200
l’4ins (1 tray, 36 piercings), 1%4ins (1 tray, 25 piercings), 2ins (6 trays, each 16 piercings), 2%4ins (3 trays, each 9 piercings), 3ins (1
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Late Victorian Tall Mahogany Medal Collectors’ Cabinet, double paneled doors, with lock and key,
360mm x 345mm x 660mm, containing 28 plain trays, approximately 12mm deep (one tray with inset
for nine medals 75mm diameter, and one double-depth drawer, 30mm deep). A few trays need easing,
but in good order and a most useful size. £150-200
3599 = Victorian Mahogany Medal Collectors’ Cabinet, glazed door, with lock, 280mm x 220mm x 370mm,
containing 19 plain trays, 10mm deep and one double-depth drawer, 25mm deep. In excellent
order. £100-150
3600 A Delightful Victorian Burr Walnut Medal Collectors’ Cabinet, glazed door, with lock and key,
250mm x 205mm x 380mm, containing 12 satinwood-fronted plain drawers, each 15mm deep.
In excellent order. £150-200
3601 = Small Victorian Mahogany Medal Collectors’ Cabinet, double paneled doors, with lock and carrying
handles to either side, 230mm x 220mm x 225mm, containing 12 plain trays, 10mm deep. In excellent
order, some trays need easing. £100-150
3602 Mahogany Coin Cabinet by Swann, 25.5cm x 30cm x 33cm, comprising 20 trays, farthing to crown size,
brass pulls, double doors, lock and key. In good order. £100-120
End of Sale
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separate sale. The auctioneer shall however have an absolute discretion to
divide any Lot, to combine any two or more Lots, or to withdraw any Lot
from the auction without giving any reason (including after the hammer has
fallen). Bidding shall be regulated at the absolute discretion of the auctioneer.
The auctioneer has the right to refuse any bid.
44. Subject to Condition 4.2, the contract for the sale of the Lot is
concluded on the fall of the hammer.
4.5. All Lots are offered for sale subject to any Reserve.
4.6. | You cannot cancel your purchase of a Lot once the hammer has fallen.
5D: PAYMENT
5.1. The Purchase Price payable by a Buyer is the Hammer Price plus a
Buyer’s Premium of 20% of the Hammer Price. VAT is payable in
addition unless the Lot is exempt or zero-rated.
5.2. The symbol ‘G’ appearing next to a lot in this catalogue denotes
the item is ‘Investment Gold’ and, therefore, a VAT-registered trader can
submit a claim to H M Revenue and Customs to recover the VAT element
of the Buyers’ Premium
5.3. Any lot marked with a dagger (t) is subject to import VAT at 5%,
this will be added to the hammer price and is payable by the buyer if
resident in the EU. If the lot is being exported outside the EU, this import
VAT can be waived or refunded on proof of export.
5.4. The Buyer of a Lot shall pay the Purchase Price in full before the
Lot can be delivered to the Buyer.
5.5. Except where Condition 5.4 applies, any part of the Purchase Price
outstanding after the Auction shall be payable by you within 14 days of
the date of the auction, the due date.
5.6. The Purchase Price is payable by you in full. You are not entitled
to set-off any amounts that you claim are due from us or anyone else or
make any other deductions.
5.7. Unless we have agreed in writing otherwise, you shall act on your
own account as principal in respect of the sale and therefore if you accept
a commission from a third party to bid on their behalf, you do so at your
own risk and will remain personally liable (jointly with your principal) to
us for the Purchase Price in accordance with these Conditions.
5.8. The methods of payment and surcharges are set out in the Catalogue.
5.9. If the Purchase Price has not been settled within 30 days of the auction
date a £50 late payment fee will be added and interest will be charged at 2%
per month from the due date of payment to the date that cleared funds are
received whether that is before or after any legal judgment. This is without
prejudice to any other rights that we have for non-payment.
5.10. If you fail to comply with your obligations under these Conditions,
the Lot, in respect of such non-compliance, may at our discretion be put up
for sale at auction or privately and resold. In this case, you will be liable in
full and will indemnify us for all losses, costs and expenses (including legal
costs) incurred as a result, including the costs of the resale and the amount
(if any) by which the Hammer Price obtained on the resale is less than the
Hammer Price obtained on the original sale of the Lot to the Buyer.
6. RISK, TITLE AND DELIVERY
6.1. The risk of damage/loss to the Lot will pass to the Buyer on the
fall of the hammer. Title in a Lot will not pass to the Buyer until the
Purchase Price has been paid in full.
6.2. Unless agreed by us, you should collect the Lot within 7 days of
the date of the auction. We reserve the right to charge for storage and to
resell by auction or privately without notice to you, if a Lot is not
collected. Alternatively we will send the Lot to you by recorded post.
Postage and insurance costs will be charged as additional costs.
6.3. Except in relation to Forgeries, you must satisfy yourself that the correct
Lot has been delivered to you at the time of collection/delivery. We will not be
responsible for any discrepancy which might be discovered after the Lots have
been collected. If we have shipped the Lot to you, we will not be responsible for
any discrepancies if you fail to notify us within 24 hours of receipt.
6.4. _ It is the Buyer's responsibility to obtain any necessary import,
export or other licences required in relation to a Lot.
U. GUARANTEE FOR FORGERIES
7.1. Baldwin’s is a member of the International Association of
Professional Numismatists and in accordance with the conditions of
membership, provide a guarantee to the Buyer for all Lots against
Forgeries on the terms set out in these Conditions (‘Guarantee’).
7.2. For the purposes of these Conditions, a ‘Forgery’ means an
imitation that has been created with the fraudulent intent to deceive in
respect of the authorship, origin, date, age, period and the correct
description does not correspond with the description in the Catalogue and as
a result has a value significantly less than it would have been had it been
genuine.
7.3. You must notify us in writing within one month of you becoming
aware that the Lot may be a Forgery. The Lot must be returned to us in the
same condition as at the time of sale and you must submit evidence that the
Lot is a Forgery, the onus being on you to prove that it is a Forgery.
7.4. You acknowledge that:
(a) we reserve the right to re-assess the Lot or engage at our expense
any expert or authority considered by us at our sole discretion to have the
necessary expertise to undertake a re-assessment of the Lot;
(b) following our re-assessment of the Lot, you agree to be bound by
our decision as to whether or not the Lot is a Forgery.
7.5. You shall not be entitled to a refund for a Forgery if:
(a) the grounds for claiming that the Lot is a Forgery is based
primarily on a difference of opinion between us and a third party providing
coin grading services;
(b) the grounds for claiming that the Lot is a Forgery is by reason of
any damage and/or restoration and/or modification work of any nature;
(c) the description of the Lot in the catalogue was in accordance
with generally accepted opinions of numismatic specialists as at the date
of publication or the catalogue indicated that there was a conflict of
opinion.
(d) it has been proved that the Lot is a Forgery by applying a method
that was unavailable or not generally applied within the industry of
numismatics as at the date of publication of the catalogue or was
disproportionately expensive, in both cases as determined in our absolute
discretion.
7.6. If we agree that the Lot is a Forgery then subject to:
(a) you being able to confirm in writing that you can transfer legal
and beneficial title to the Lot to us or as directed by us free from all
encumbrances or third party claims of any nature; and
(b) the exclusions in Condition 7.7,
then the sale of the Lot will be rescinded so that it is cancelled and we will
refund the Purchase Price to you in full.
7.7. Your right to return the Lot and receive a refund of the Hammer Price
under the Guarantee is your sole remedy against us, our agents and sub-
contractors and/or the Seller for a Forgery. You will not be entitled to claim
interest on the amount due to you. Neither we, our agents or sub-contractors
nor the Seller shall be liable for costs, expenses, damages or any other liability
however it arises relating to a Forgery.
7.8. In accordance with the restriction in Condition 10.2, the benefit of the
Guarantee is personal to the original Buyer and is not transferable to a new
owner of the Lot or any other person.
8. EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY
8.1. Except where these Conditions expressly state otherwise, no warranty
is given to a Buyer concerning a Lot and each Lot is sold as shown with all
faults, imperfections, errors of description (including authorship, origin, age,
size, condition or value) or lack of authenticity or genuineness and neither we
nor the Seller nor any of our agents or sub-contractors will be liable for any
damages, costs, expenses or any other liability arising out of the same whether
or not caused by negligence.
8.2. Our maximum liability under these Conditions is the amount of the
Purchase Price paid by you.
8.3. Neither we nor any of our agents or sub-contractors shall be liable,
whether in tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), contract,
misrepresentation or otherwise:
(a) for loss of profits or business, depletion of goodwill and/or similar
losses; loss of contracts; or
(b) any special, indirect, consequential or pure economic loss, costs,
damages, charges or expenses.
8.4. We shall not be liable to you or be deemed to be in breach of these
Conditions by reason of any delay in performing, or any failure to perform,
any of our obligations in the Conditions, if the delay or failure was due to any
cause beyond our reasonable control.
8.5. Nothing in these Conditions excludes or limits our liability for any
matter which it would be illegal for us to exclude or attempt to exclude under
English law or for our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
9. DATA PROTECTION
9.1. By agreeing to these Conditions, a Bidder acknowledges and
agrees that we will use personal information of a Bidder for the purpose
of the auction and ancillary matters, including providing a Buyer's
personal details to any other person where necessary to enforce our rights
under these Conditions.
10. GENERAL
10.1. These Conditions and the Seller's Conditions constitute the entire
agreement between us. All other terms, warranties and representations,
express or implied by statute or otherwise are excluded to the fullest
extent permitted by law. No variation to these Conditions shall be legally
binding unless agreed in writing by us.
10.2. All rights and benefits granted to a Bidder under these Conditions
are personal to him and may not be assigned or in any other way
transferred to any other person. Any such assignment or transfer will be
invalid and unenforceable against us.
10.3. A notice required or permitted to be given by either of us to the
other under these Conditions shall, in the case of a Bidder, be to the last
address notified to us and in the case of Baldwin's, shall be to its
registered office.
10.4. No failure or delay by us in exercising any of our rights under these
Conditions shall be deemed to be a waiver of that right, and no waiver by us
of any breach of these Conditions by you shall be considered as a waiver of
any subsequent breach of the same or any other provision.
10.5. We may perform our obligations and exercise our respective rights
through any of our group companies or assign our rights under these Conditions.
10.6. If any provision of these Conditions is held by any court or other
competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part,
the validity of the other provisions and the remainder of the provision in
question shall not be affected.
10.7. English law shall apply to these Conditions and we both agree to
the English courts having exclusive jurisdiction.
tA INTERPRETATION
11.1. In these Conditions:
‘Baldwins’, ‘auctioneer’, ‘us’ or ‘we’ means A H Baldwin & Sons Limited;
‘Bidder’ and 'you' means a person making, attempting to make or
considering making a bid for a Lot including a Buyer;
‘Buyer’ means the person who makes the highest bid for a Lot which is
accepted by the auctioneer and if the person is acting as an agent, will be a
reference to its principal only if Baldwin's has accepted the agency in writing;
‘Catalogue’ means a catalogue, price list or other publication or price list;
‘Commission Bid’ means an instruction from a Bidder to us to bid on
their behalf at the auction;
‘Conditions’ means these conditions of sale and any other additional
terms notified to Bidders in writing in a Catalogue or otherwise (which
includes notices displayed at the Auction) or as agreed in writing
between Baldwin's and the Bidder;
‘Guarantee’ has the meaning set out in Condition 7.1;
‘Hammer Price’ means the amount of the highest bid for a Lot accepted
by the auctioneer;
‘including’ or ‘include’ mean including without limitation and include
without limitation, respectively;
‘Lot’ means any item deposited with us for sale at auction including items
described against any Lot number in a Catalogue;
‘Purchase Price' means the Hammer Price plus buyer's premium and VAT
where applicable;
‘Reserve’ means a confidential price below which the auctioneer will not
sell a Lot or will re-purchase on behalf of the Seller or for the account of
Baldwin's. Unless otherwise specified at the time of Lot consignment,
this will be set at approximately 80% of the Lot estimate at complete
discretion of the auctioneer;
‘Seller's Conditions’ means the terms and conditions of sale between
Baldwin's and a Seller for the sale of a Lot as displayed in the auction
room, on our website or available from Baldwin's.
11.2. Headings in these Conditions are for convenience only and shall
not affect their interpretation.
AUCTIONS
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Old Master and 19th Century Paintings,
Prints, Drawings and Watercolours
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Harry Hall (1814-1882)
Munden, 1876
Oil on canvas
Sold for £24,000
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and collectibles. We have the broadest and most regular calendar of
specialist sales, providing vendors and buyers with access to market
leading advice in any number of collecting fields. Together with Apex
Philatelics and A.H. Baldiwin & Sons, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
are a part of Noble Investments (UK) PLC, the only UK stock exchange
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Forthcoming Auctions:
May 2013
Baldwin’s Auction 78, The David Fore Collection of British Indian Coins (Part One)
Baldwin’s Auction 79, The Bentley Collection (Part 3), British Sovereigns
Baldwin’s Auction 80, British and World Coins and Medals
Baldwin’s Islamic Coin Auction 24, The Horus Collection of Islamic Coins
Baldwin’s Auction 81, Commemorative Medals
Baldwin’s Auction 82, The David Fore Collection of British Indian Coins (Part Two)
June 2013
Baldwin’s Summer Argentum Auction, Coins and Medals
British and World Coins, Commemorative Medals, in conjunction with the London Coin Fair, Holiday Inn
Consignment Deadline : 2 May 2013
The Military Sale, Medals and Militaria, held in conjunction with Dreweatts
This auction will be held at Maddox Street, London
Consignment Deadline: 15 April 2013
Apex Philatelic, Postal Auction 124, General Stamps
Consignment Deadline: 31 March 2013 °
July 2013
Apex Philatelic, Public Auction 125, General Stamps
Consignment Deadline: 1 May 2013
August 2013
Baldwin’s Hong Kong Coin Auction 55, Far Eastern and World Coins, Medals and Banknotes
Consignment Deadline : 15 June 2013
September 2013
Baldwin’s Auction 83, Ancient and World Coins and Commemorative Medals
The Official Coinex Auction
Consignment Deadline : 15 July 2013
Baldwin’s Auction 84, The David Fore Collection of British Indian Coins (Part Three)
The Official Coinex Auction
Apex Philatelic, Postal Auction 126, General Stamps
Consignment Deadline : 7 July 2013
November 2013
Baldwin’s Autumn Argentum Auction, Coins and Medals
British and World Coins, Commemorative Medals, in conjunction with the London Coin Fair, Holiday Inn
Consignment Deadline : 1 September 2013
Apex Philatelic, Postal Auction 127, General Stamps
Consignment Deadline : 28 August 2013
December 2013
Apex Philatelic, Postal Auction 128, General Stamps
Consignment Deadline : 10 November 2013
January 2014
Baldwin’s The New York Sale XXXII, Ancient and World Coins
Baldwin’s The New York Sale XXXIll, Russian Coins and Medals
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London, 5 June 2013
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Lingfield, 21 July 2013
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London, 25 September 2013
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London, 2 November 2013
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Postal, 12 December 2013
New York, 8 January 2014
New York, 9 January 2014
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For enquiries with items for direct purchase or inclusion in one of our auctions please contact us
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